Animals-and-Pets
African Birdlife
Benguela Blues
Why are southern Africa’s iconic coastal birds facing extinction?
8 min |
September/October 2019
African Birdlife
Keep Watching...
IT IS SAID that more than 11 trillion images are taken every year.
3 min |
September/October 2019
African Birdlife
Focus Close To Home
We’ve all been there. You check your social media accounts and scroll through the birdwatching groups, see remarkable photographs of birds and wonder if you could ever take something similar; you review your recent images from the local nature reserve and ponder how other photographers manage to get the birds to sit still and pose like supermodels; you admire the lighting showing the bird’s colors to best advantage.
4 min |
September/October 2019
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A Place To Feel The Clouds
Expedition to Mahimborondro.
5 min |
September/October 2019
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Water-Wise Gardening
Water-Wise Gardening
4 min |
March/April 2018
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Twitter Feed
Twitter Feed
1 min |
March/April 2018
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Floating Wetlands
Small steps can make a big difference
2 min |
March/April 2018
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A New Approach
BIRDING BIG DAY 2017
5 min |
March/April 2018
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Workshops To Save Seabirds
Workshops To Save Seabirds
3 min |
March/April 2018
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Conserving African Penguins
Conserving African Penguins
4 min |
March/April 2018
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Feeling Broody
Miombo Double-collared Sunbird
2 min |
March/April 2018
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Caught Off-Guard
Caught Off-Guard
1 min |
March/April 2018
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Helpful Stranger?
Helpful Stranger?
1 min |
March/April 2018
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Fired up
Grass Owls’ narrow escape
5 min |
November - December 2016
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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.
3 min |
March - April 2017
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Trade Off
Official support for Grey Parrots.
10 min |
March - April 2017
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Future Custodians
Ensuring the future of Biodiversity Stewardship through education
2 min |
May/June 2018
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An Ill Wind Blowing In Lesotho
BirdLife South Africa strongly supports the responsible generation of renewable energy.
2 min |
May/June 2018
African Birdlife
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.
3 min |
May - June 2017
African Birdlife
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.
2 min |
May - June 2017
African Birdlife
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.
1 min |
May - June 2017
African Birdlife
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.
3 min |
May - June 2017
African Birdlife
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.
3 min |
July - August 2017
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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.
4 min |
July - August 2017
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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.
5 min |
July - August 2017
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Up Where We Belong
UCT rated third for ornithology in World University Rankings
2 min |
July - August 2017
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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.
3 min |
July - August 2017
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Pecking Order
Little Egrets are commonly seen along waterways throughout the Okavango Delta.
1 min |
July - August 2017
African Birdlife
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.
7 min |
July/August 2018
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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.
3 min |