African Birdlife - March/April 2022

SHOWCASE

We receive remarkable images on a regular basis, but are not always able to find space for them in our pages.

Records abound on BBD 2022

By the time Birding Big Day (BBD) 2022 dawned on 3 December, nearly 400 teams comprising about 1600 birders had registered for the 50-kilometre and six-kilometre categories, roughly the same number of teams as in the previous year.

PAOC AT VICTORIA FALLS

No fewer than 13 staff members of BirdLife South Africa travelled to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, to attend the 15th Pan African Ornithological Congress (PAOC) from 21 to 25 November 2022.

Working together for SOUTHERN BALD IBIS

BirdLife South Africa is working closely with authorities in Lesotho in a bid to protect the Southern Bald Ibis and at the same time promote development of the Mountain Kingdom's natural resources.

Image Conscious

How photographs benefit birders

Challenge Accepted

Photographing swallows in flight

Hatch & Dispatch

Diederik Cuckoo breeding strategy

Breeding IN THE bushveld

Pearl-spotted Owlets

WHERE AND WHEN TO go?

Questions for nomadic birds

Beneath THE canopys

The Congo's Odzala-Kokoua National Park