Broad-billed Roller

Birds > Perching Birds

The Broad-billed Roller (Eurystomus glaucurus) is a dazzling, stocky aerial bird belonging to the roller family Coraciidae, widespread across the woodlands and savannas of sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar. Famous for its heavy, bright yellow bill and rich...

Common Greenshank

Birds > Wading Birds & Shorebirds

The Common Greenshank (Tringa nebularia) is a large, elegant Palearctic wader renowned for its long greenish-grey legs and slender, slightly upturned bill. Nesting across the vast boreal peatlands and taiga bogs of northern Eurasia, it undertakes tremendous annual...

White-fronted Bee-eater

Birds > Coraciiformes

The White-fronted Bee-eater (Merops bullockoides) is an exquisitely painted, intensely social jewel of East and Southern Africa’s savanna waterways. Renowned for its complex, multi-tiered clan societies—one of the most socially sophisticated colonial nesting...

Bateleur

Birds > Accipitriformes

The Bateleur (Terathopius ecaudatus) is the dazzling, acrobatic tightrope walker of the African skies and one of the most distinctive eagles on Earth. Named from the French word for ‘street tumbler’ or ‘tightrope walker’ because of its unique...

Carmine Bee-eater

Birds > Coraciiformes

The Carmine Bee-eater (Merops nubicoides), celebrated across Africa as the ‘Flying Ruby’, is one of the most breathtakingly gorgeous, gregarious, and vividly colored migratory birds on planet Earth. Clad in an incandescent plumage of glowing crimson-pink,...