The author, Rupert Watson, is a long-time resident of Langata and frequently recounts stories about his expeditions around Kenya and Africa, seeking out unusual birds. Sometimes those expeditions lasted days and resulted in only a fleeting glimpse of the bird. He travelled for days by plane and dugout canoe into central Congo looking for the Congo Peacock, but only managed to briefly hear its call in the forest at night. At the Kenya Coast, he went looking for the rare Clarke’s Weaver in the Dakatcha woodlands but completely failed to find it. But the book is less about the rare birds of the title but more about the birds we regularly see in our daily lives (even if we do not realise it or recognise them).

Source: The Star January 15, 2021 00:22 UTC