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Forbes-Watson’s Swift

A tale of serendipity

Derek Keats

In March of 2017 I was leading a birding tour to Southern Mozambique. On 3 March, while searching for the Green Tinkerbird some 30km inland from Inhassoro, I became aware that there were swifts overhead. Without giving it too much thought…

Why I photograph birds

Derek Keats

Way back in 1986, when I was leaving New Brunswick, Canada to go spend two years in Zimbabwe, my friend Anne Bardou gave me a book, “A Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa”. While Zimbabwe is not East Africa, the book went to all the…