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A Place To Feel The Clouds
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A Place To Feel The Clouds

Expedition to Mahimborondro.

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5 mins  |
September/October 2019
Water-Wise Gardening
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Water-Wise Gardening

Water-Wise Gardening

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March/April 2018
Twitter Feed
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Twitter Feed

Twitter Feed

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March/April 2018
Floating Wetlands
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Floating Wetlands

Small steps can make a big difference

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March/April 2018
A New Approach
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A New Approach

BIRDING BIG DAY 2017

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March/April 2018
Workshops To Save Seabirds
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Workshops To Save Seabirds

Workshops To Save Seabirds

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March/April 2018
Conserving African Penguins
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Conserving African Penguins

Conserving African Penguins

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March/April 2018
Feeling Broody
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Feeling Broody

Miombo Double-collared Sunbird

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March/April 2018
Caught Off-Guard
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Caught Off-Guard

Caught Off-Guard

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March/April 2018
Helpful Stranger?
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Helpful Stranger?

Helpful Stranger?

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March/April 2018
Fired up
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Fired up

Grass Owls’ narrow escape

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November - December 2016
Hunger Strikes
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Hunger Strikes

Some opportunistic birds in the arid Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park have learnt to take advantage of other birds congregating at waterholes.

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March - April 2017
Trade Off
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Trade Off

Official support for Grey Parrots.

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March - April 2017
Future Custodians
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Future Custodians

Ensuring the future of Biodiversity Stewardship through education

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May/June 2018
An Ill Wind Blowing In Lesotho
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An Ill Wind Blowing In Lesotho

BirdLife South Africa strongly supports the responsible generation of renewable energy.

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May/June 2018
Woodland Woes - Decline in South Africa's Forest Birds
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Woodland Woes - Decline in South Africa's Forest Birds

Forest-dwelling bird species are disappearing from some of South Africa’s indigenous forests, with forest birds in the Eastern Cape being the most affected.

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May - June 2017
Tough Love
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Tough Love

Adult African Penguins may have most of their breeding strategy reasonably sorted, but when it comes to chick rearing, they can be pretty brutal at the close. New research has revealed that where this species’ parenting behaviour coincides with climate change, associated oceanographic changes and altered prey fish distribution patterns, the result can be a devastating decline in adolescent penguin survival rates in affected areas. 

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May - June 2017
No Place to Hide
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No Place to Hide

In November we set offon a great ad-venture to Liuwa in remote western Zambia, just as the first summer rains were due. Liuwa is sandwiched between the Zambezi and Luanginga rivers in Barotseland. The soil is sandy and inundated with floodwaters and, if you time it right, it’s a birding paradise with seasonal pools of water and soil bursting with pink lilies. Collared Pratincoles flock in their thousands, while Wattled and Grey Crowned cranes decorate the grasslands. We knew we’d see some of the 45 000 wildebeest for which Liuwa is renowned, we expected to run into the packs of daytime-hunting hyaenas and we hoped to at least glimpse the last of Liuwa’s lions, Lady Liuwa.

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May - June 2017
Poison - The Persistent Problem
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Poison - The Persistent Problem

More than 20 years ago, at the start of the dry season in the parched rangelands of northern Namibia, a local farmer implicated Lappet-faced Vultures in the killing of his new-born dorper lambs.

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May - June 2017
Penguins Through The Ages
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Penguins Through The Ages

Thanks to their robust bones, which fossilise better than those of most other birds, we have a fairly good record of the evolutionary history of penguins.

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July - August 2017
The World's Largest Canary - Sao Tome Grosbeak
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The World's Largest Canary - Sao Tome Grosbeak

The São Tomé Grosbeak Neospiza concolor is a contender for being one of the most enigmatic bird species on the planet.

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July - August 2017
Kingfisher To The King - Malachite Kingfisher
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Kingfisher To The King - Malachite Kingfisher

The town of Stellenbosch in the Western Cape is a magnet for tour-ist buses.

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July - August 2017
Up Where We Belong
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Up Where We Belong

UCT rated third for ornithology in World University Rankings

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July - August 2017
Robert John Martin
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Robert John Martin

The Western Cape lost one of its most experienced birders when Rob Martin passed away peacefully in his sleep on 29 May 2017.

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July - August 2017
Pecking Order
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Pecking Order

Little Egrets are commonly seen along waterways throughout the Okavango Delta.

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July - August 2017
Wide, Open De Mond
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Wide, Open De Mond

Gusts of the wildest wind scorch across acres of exposed sand, whipping it up into tiny, stinging tornadoes, garnished by the skimming salt of the sea.

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July/August 2018
No Risk, No Reward - Taking The Lion's Share
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No Risk, No Reward - Taking The Lion's Share

Most African vultures depend pri-marily on the kills made by large carnivores for their food.

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July/August 2018
In The Swim
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In The Swim

Generous donation boosts SANCCOB

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July/August 2018
Blended Family
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Blended Family

Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark.

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9 mins  |
January/February 2017
Behind The Lens
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Behind The Lens

Albert Froneman.

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6 mins  |
January/February 2017