It’s now been one week since I got home, so it seems like a good idea to finish off this blog exercise with a brief retrospective. After...

Uganda was declared a British "protectorate" (= colony) in the 1890s and held as such by the British East Africa Company until thrown out...

It's been three weeks since I arrive at Pakuba Safari Lodge and five days from now Kenneth and I will depart, stepping into a Toyota...

Yesterday afternoon, we acknowledge reality that our 2022 study of shoebill foraging behavior was not going to succeed, owing to an...

This afternoon, I shall write about some things I have learned from limited personal experience as a somewhat atypical tourist of African...

Fig. 1: Mugecis, Kenneth, and Doug (L-R). From this cell phone shot, taken by Ivan, it is clear that we're early in the study because I...

"The quality of mercy is not strained It droppeth like the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed. It...

Fancy basket fish traps on the Nile The villages along the Albert Nile have three main economic options: livestock farming, crop farming,...

Our sole means of transportation for the shoebill study is a fiberglass open boat about 18' long with a 40 hp engine. Two Uganda...

I know I named this blog 'Shoebill Diary,' but I am less interested in giving a daily play-by-play (which obviously I have not kept up...

In 20 minutes the rangers are scheduled to pick us up, so I have time only for a quick summary of the past week. Basically, we spent...

This post is way overdue, as it’s now been one week since I left Virginia. The flight over was mercifully unmemorable, despite taking 23...

Despite having stated that I'd posted my last pre-travel entry, I found myself pondering the trip that begins tomorrow morning before...

This coming Saturday (Oct. 1) I will complete the 23 hour airplane trip to Uganda, so this is likely my last pre-travel posting. I want...

It’s easy to add pre-trip postings here from my desk in Virginia, less than 2 weeks out from the trip, so I will say a few things now...

Kenneth Tumusiime and I have several explicit goals, both scientific and economic, as we gear up for our month-long field study of...

This is going to be a real-time accounting of an adventure/research project I am pursuing with Kenneth Tumusiime in Uganda throughout the...