African Birds: Birds of East & Southern Africa by Wayne Osborn
African Birds is a collection of our bird images from our frequent travels to the beguiling continent that is Africa. Recent revisions have added 52 new species from the Serengeti, South Africa and Namibia taken in July and August of 2018. Also another 27 new species from Zambia and Botswana taken in July 2019 appear in this edition. The end result is images of 344 bird species from Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The majority of the images have been taken with a prime 600mm lens and a 200-560mm zoom lens. These lenses are unwieldy, cumbersome and a pain to travel with but deliver great results with birds.
Thank you to Andre Cloete, co-founder of C4 Photo Safaris for his expert advice. Andre corrected some errors in the earlier editions and travelled with us during February and March of 2017 and July of 2018.
ANZEC Member - Wayne Osborn
Wayne has been an active SCUBA diver and Underwater Photographer since 1974. He resides in Perth, Western Australia with his wife Pam. They have an interest in whale conservation and have travelled to the Azores, the Great Barrier Reef and Tonga to document sperm, minke and humpback whales. Wayne and Pam donate many of their images to whale researchers and have documented the migration of humpback whales along the Western Australian coast since 2006. Pam has photographed 2,500 individual humpbacks in that time. Their images have been included in numerous reference books and Wayne's image of a dwarf minke whale is on the cover of the 2nd edition of Marine Mammals of the World.Wayne was the Australian Geographic Australasian Nature Photographer of the Year in 2012.They have published a number of iBooks including "In Pursuit of Whales" and "A Long Lens in Africa - Birds of East & Southern Africa."
