This region of Namibia is by its very nature and location not a well-visited part of the country, being somewhat "out on a limb" both figuratively and literally speaking. As a result most visitors, and birders, have in the past regarded this area more as a "through- route" to other more well-known, and better advertised destinations, rather than a destination in itself. As a consequence to this lack of recognition, particularly by the birding fraternity, it is relatively "under-birded". The advantage of this, and the fact that we border on Angola and its uncharted wilderness, is that there could be several surprises in store for the birding world. We may have new species previously only recorded from Angola overlapping their distribution into Namibia, or hybridisation between similar species, or even (we live in perpetual hope) entirely new species waiting to be discovered.