The skimmers are here, the skimmers are here! Ah, how sweet those words are to hear. We wait all year for them. When we’re away from the river, dispatches announcing the news find us and onto the plane we climb. Because there’s no ignoring the call of the African Skimmer. Some…
We’ve been teasing you with images of our Royal Chundu flock in celebration of Year of the Bird and we’re excited to say: our birds have now taken flight, spreading across the globe from Cape Town to New York, Zambia to the Wild West. They’re on a mission to spread the spirit…
“If you take care of the birds, you take care of most of the big environmental problems in the world.” —Thomas E. Lovejoy, Tropical Conservation Biologist & National Geographic Fellow This year marks the centennial of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the most powerful and important bird-protection law ever passed, protecting more…
It’s hard to take a bad photo of Royal Chundu and its surrounds, our guest, Tara Turkington, whose images we feature here, told us after her time at the lodge. While we agree, of course, we think it also has a lot to do with Tara’s ability to see the beauty…
When you head out at sunrise on a breakfast picnic birding cruise and the sleep is still heavy in your eyes, the dreams of the night before blurred with reality, it’s easy to make little mistakes. Like forgetting the tripod back in your room, and the nifty fifty, and the telephoto,…
Whoever said that long distance relationships don’t work never fell in love with the African skimmers of the Zambezi River. Perhaps it’s easier with birds, though… The skimmers arrive around the month of July, in the dry season, when little sandbanks peak out of the great river and call the migrants home. Here…
