Keith Barnes

South Africa

www.tropicalbirding.com

Keith reailzed that he was no longer a scientist when a significant difference in the tail lengths of larks didn’t really make a significant difference in his life! Turning his back on the Ivory Towers, Keith helped found Tropical Birding and now heads the Africa and Asia operations. Having traveled far and wide in Africa in search of larks, turacos, bee-eaters and other beasties, he has turned his interests towards Asia and its wren-babblers and pittas. Before Keith was able to actually see most of the birds he wanted to, he had to sit in an office and write about them, producing The Important Bird Areas of Southern Africa and The Red Data Book of Birds of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland in the process.
IBC Personal statistics:

• First material posted on 9 June 2008
• Number of videos posted: 11 covering 9 species (0.09%)
• Number of photos posted: 0 covering 0 species (0%)
• Number of sounds posted: 0 covering 0 species (0%)