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This website provides materials for the Zimbabwean National Parks’ Learner Hunters and Guides (LPH) examinations.

There are six introductory articles below, followed by the most recent posts.  The menu above also gives access to the different categories.

Paradise Flycatcher - Pair

African Paradise Flycatcher

Terpsiphone viridis (Genus: Terpsiphone, Greek = delightful voice; Species, viridis, Latin = green - presumably because of the greenish-tinged head) Kateredemu, zvigone (Shona),  Tchitrec d'Afrique(French),…

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Ngomakurira From A Distance

Granite Landscape

Places like Matopos, south of Bulawayo, and the Chinamora area, north of Harare, are associated iconic, granite-based landscapes. These landscapes are…

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Miombo Double-collared Sunbird

Miombo Double-collared Sunbird

Cinnyris manoensis (Genus: Cinnyris, Greek cinnyris = shining; Species: manoensis = place name, Mano, in SW Tanzania; "miombo" is the name of a certain kind of savanna vegetation…

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Kazungula Bridge - Close Up

Kazungula Bridge

This article is taken from the site https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/kazungula-bridge Big ideas.Once a week. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Why Africa’s newest super-bridge…

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Pin-tailed Whydah,

Pin-tailed Whydah

(Interestingly, the name 'whydah' is derived from a small town named 'Ouidah' on the coast of the ancient kingdom of 'Whydah'…

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Lizard Buzzard

Lizard Buzzard

Lizard BuzzardKaupifalco monogrammicus (Genus: Kaupifalco, after Johann Jakob von Kaup [1803-1873], German zoologist and author; Species: monogrammicus, Latin = mono, single; grammicus = mark i.e. with a single mark, signed,…

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