Visitors to Africa intent on having an avian experience par none will barely have time to put down the binoculars with around 2,340 bird species crisscrossing the continent’s skies. More than 1,560 of these occur nowhere else in the world, including 14 entire families with 156 species between them.
The feathered kind act as natural indicators of Savannah grasslands, forests, mountains, coastal areas, deserts, and semi-deserts that span their vast home ranges. Within them exist 1,248 Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas stretching over roughly two million square kilometres.