My formal Fine Art training was undertaken at Wimbledon School of Art and subsequently I taught art for some years at Pimlico School. Always a keen birdwatcher, my two main interests merged when I turned professional bird artist. My birding travels have taken me all over the world, but my major interest is in sub-Saharan Africa and I currently lead tours there for the specialist birding holiday company BirdQuest. I have traveled very extensively throughout Africa, spending years in the field, and am co-author and sole illustrator of the definitive Birds of Western Africa (2001), Birds of Ghana (2010) and Birds of Senegal and The Gambia (2012). The fully revised and revamped second edition of Birds of Western Africa was published in August 2014. Travelling far and wide to sketch and photograph birds was my hobby and now my work. I live in Norfolk, England.

 

This collection of photos is a record of the wildlife (mainly birds) that I have seen since using digital cameras. The quality is admittedly variable but I still wanted to include record shots where no better images were available. I hope that the collection will be useful to some of you.

 

The bird photos are arranged in family albums and the taxonomic order follows the IOC www.worldbirdnames.org/new/

 

For Artwork and birdwatching tours with Birdquest please see my website: www.nikborrow.com and www.birdquest-tours.com

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  • JoinedNovember 2014
  • OccupationArtist
  • Current citySheringham
  • CountryEngland

Testimonials

Nik, I have noticed your great photos for years, mostly seen via africanbirdclub.org. You have recently started posting to Flickr with "some rights reserved". Thank your for licensing your photos for use by the general public. As time goes on, I will be incorporating more and more in my website carolinabirds.org.

July 2, 2017