A Place To Feel The Clouds

Expedition to Mahimborondro.

Water-Wise Gardening

Water-Wise Gardening

Twitter Feed

Twitter Feed

Floating Wetlands

Small steps can make a big difference

A New Approach

BIRDING BIG DAY 2017

Workshops To Save Seabirds

Workshops To Save Seabirds

Conserving African Penguins

Conserving African Penguins

Feeling Broody

Miombo Double-collared Sunbird

Caught Off-Guard

Caught Off-Guard

Helpful Stranger?

Helpful Stranger?

Fired up

Grass Owls’ narrow escape

Hunger Strikes

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

Trade Off

Official support for Grey Parrots.

Future Custodians

Ensuring the future of Biodiversity Stewardship through education

An Ill Wind Blowing In Lesotho

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

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kingfisher To The King - Malachite Kingfisher

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

Up Where We Belong

UCT rated third for ornithology in World University Rankings

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.

Pecking Order

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

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.

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.

In The Swim

Generous donation boosts SANCCOB

Blended Family

Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark.

Behind The Lens

Albert Froneman.