CATEGORIES
PUTTING 'COMMUNITY' INTO COMMUNITY BIRD GUIDES
On the face of it, the Community Bird Guide Project is about training bird guides. However, the footprint of this long-running project is much bigger than that.
listing FOR Conservation
Most birders keep some sort of a list. Some don't, but this is the South Africa Listers' Club column so if you're reading this, let's assume that you do.
penguins breeding AT DE HOOP
Seven years after work began to re-establish an African Penguin breeding colony at De Hoop Nature Reserve, a pair of chicks has been observed at a nest at the colony.
MIDDELPUNT a new nature reserve
The White-winged Flufftail is listed as globally Critically Endangered, with an estimated population of fewer than 250 mature individuals.
flock with us!
Flock to Wilderness 24–28 May 2023
twitter FEED
My husband and I were busy in the garden when we heard a commotion. The thrushes had been aggressively defending their territory for the past couple of days, chasing away doves, pigeons and even parakeets.
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take a hike
Birding the Pondo Trail
take cover
You don’t have to be crazy, but it helps…
just wait...
Photographer, author and naturalist Hugh Chittenden is one of southern Africa’s most respected field biologists.
martial law
‘Look at those two vultures,’ said my wife Petra, after noticing something flying towards us. We were at the Kwang waterhole on 19 September 2022, during our visit to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.
show & tell
African Broadbill display
sightings IN THE SUBREGION
Mid-September to mid-November 2022
cryptic conundrun
Can you rise to the challenge and identify this African bird species? Consider all the likely variables and then test yourself – it’s not always as easy as it looks! If you enter and your identification is correct, you stand in line to win a pair of binoculars that will help take your birding to the next level…
DDT dangers
Global monitoring in raptors
duck OR dive
Predator-avoidance tactics
synthetic fibre blues
The penduline-tits (Remizidae) are a small family of 11 species in three genera allied to the true tits (Paridae). Most species construct intricately woven nests that are suspended from branches, which explains their common name.
Príncipe Scops Owl
In July 2016, the presence of a scops owl was confirmed on Príncipe, the smaller of the two islands that comprise the tiny island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe in the Gulf of Guinea (African Birdlife 5(1): 10).
cause &effect
Drop in Lesser Kestrel numbers
change your tune
Coping with noisy neighbours
contact tracing
Feather lice transmission between seabirds
adapt-a-bill
Yet more cryptic prions
Thermal BUFFER
Forest birds reveal their physiological secrets
Dancers IN THE desert
The return of Ostriches to the Sahara
Killer moves
After two years of being prevented from visiting Mashatu Game Reserve in Botswana because of the pandemic, we were excited to return to this magical wilderness in the first week of December 2021.
Wetland wonder
ABOUT 200 KILOMETRES north of Johannesburg and straddling the floodplain of the Nyl River, Nylsvley Nature Reserve is a much-visited birding destination in Limpopo Province.
Paradise found?
Searching for Taita Falcons in Niassa Special Reserve
Trogon travails
The trials of nesting Narinas
Reno rip-off
It is always fascinating to witness the skill with which Southern Masked Weavers go about building their nests.
DE HOOP ror penguins
For the past five years, BirdLife South Africa has been working to re-establish an African Penguin colony at De Hoop Nature Reserve.