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The purpose of this website is to share our photographic record of many species of Tanzanian birds. When available, multiple images of the same species are included in order to show the birds in ways that are not possible in the standard field guides, including activities such as feeding, drinking, and nest building. Again, as available, there are images of males, females, juveniles and immatures. And we will continue to add to the collection.. Each image is accompanied by date and location. The comments on the species pages are personal or brief points of interest. More complete information can be found in the field guides.
All of the unattributed images were made by David Peterson, Ingrid Eggert or Ron Eggert.
We encourage anyone to submit images of Tanzanian birds for inclusion on this site. Photographers are acknowledged adjacent to their images and on this page. To see a list of an individual photographer's images, type his/her name into the search box. For more information about image submission, click here.
Photographers whose images are on this website:
Emily Abernathy
James Bangsund
Melissa Brand
Nik Burrow
Daryl Dell
Steve Dunlop
Owen 'Squack' Evans
Aadje Geertsma
Louis A. Hansen
Anabel Harries
Geoff Harries
Maren Hilton
Paul Joynson-Hicks
Ethan Kinsey
Peter MacKenzie
Michael Lund Markussen
Christopher Moses
Stein Ø. Nilsen
Miles Paul
Mike Peterson
Michael Poulsen
Dave Richards
Andy Roberts
Skyler Russell
Kurt Rusterholz
Gian Schachenmann
Munir Virani/The Peregrine Fund
Peter Wyckoff
Angela Ziebarth
Fain Zimmerman
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The Macaulay Library Sound and Video Catalog at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology provides an online archive of animal and bird sounds. Most of the links on our pages are to audio recordings, a few to video recordings. To listen to these recordings, click on the bird icon on the lower right section of our webpages.
Dr. Louis A. Hansen has contributed calls from a number of uncommonly seen species that were recorded in the Udzungwa Mountains.
The Tanzania Bird Atlas provides thousands of records of sightings of many species by many birders tabulated on Tanzania maps. These annotated maps are more specific than the maps in the field guides. To view the Bird Atlas maps for many of our species, click on the Tanzania map button on the lower right section of our webpages. These maps are used with permission of Neil and Liz Baker.
Field guides we use:
Zimmerman et al., Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, ISBN 0-691-01022
Stevenson & Fanshawe, Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa, T&A D Poyser, Ltd., London, ISBN 0-85661-079-8
Sinclair & Ryan, Birds of Africa South of the Sahara, Struik Publ., Cape Town, ISBN 1-86872-857-9
Reference:
Hockey et al., Robert's Birds of Southern Africa, Published by the Trustees of the John Voelcker Bird Book Fund, Cape Town, ISBN 0-620-34053-3
Click here for a checklist of Tanzanian birds.
Links:
African Bird Club
BirdLife International
East African Bird Gallery
Fatbirder-World Bird Index
Macaulay Library, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Tanzania Bird Atlas
World Heritage Sites in Tanzania
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