One of the more fascinating and beautiful families of birds in Africa is one we don’t see in the Western Hemisphere, Meropidae, the family of Bee-eaters. The name Meropidae is derived from Merops, ...

Only a few days old and still blind and naked, chicks of the African greater honeyguide kill their newly hatched foster siblings in order to eliminate competition for parental care, new research has ...

One day this week I was doing one of my absolute favorite things in Egypt, riding on horseback amid the Nile canal-fed farmland that abruptly ends in desert by the Abu Sir pyramids. Amid domesticated ...