New paper published about bird migration in Africa

During each of my last two expeditions to Africa with the Field Museum--April-May 2012 to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and March-April 2013 to western Uganda--I've made observations of northbound migrating birds. While visible migration ("vizmig" to the Brits) is extremely well known in places like the United States and Europe, where bird observatories have been set up to monitor just such migrations, it is virtually unknown in Africa, or at least seldom published on. So I decided to write up my observations, including migrating raptors, bee-eaters, and swallows. These observations have just been published in the wonderful online journal Ornithological Observations, a journal for short natural history related papers about African birds that is published jointly by BirdLife South Africa and the Animal Demography Unit of the University of Cape Town. Click on the citation below to view the paper.

Citation: Engel, J.I. (2014) Observations of visible northbound passage in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ornithological Observations. 5: 462-464.