S14E3 - TBL Podcast - Season 15 Episode 3 - Finding Kenya's Lost Red Weaver

My guest today is Kenyan birder, guide and ornithologist James Apolloh Omenya, who was part of an expedition into the Boni Forest region of Kenya in search of two of the country’s lost birds, the Red Weaver and the Tana River Cisticola.

The expedition involved difficult travel, motorbikes, local guides, security concerns, armed escorts, and a search through a part of Kenya that very few birders will ever get to experience.

And then, on 3 July 2026, James and his team found what they had gone looking for. The Red Weaver, a bird that had not be...