Animals-and-Pets
African Birdlife
Gone, but Not Forgotten
Finding the Laughing Gull
5 min |
May/June 2022
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Follow your leader
Male Caspian Tern parents lead the way
2 min |
May/June 2022
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Rest & recover
The diverse functions of stopovers for migrants
2 min |
May/June 2022
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The Great Divide
Birding the Swartberg Pass
3 min |
May/June 2022
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Gough Island Blues
It was 14 December 2021 and I was feeling pretty good.
3 min |
May/June 2022
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Outward Bound
Maputo National Park, Mozambique
5 min |
May/June 2022
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Team Work
Cape Gannets eat a diversity of fish and the occasional squid and also scavenge from trawlers.
2 min |
May/June 2022
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Conserving Forest Birds
The benefits of protected area status
3 min |
May/June 2022
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Blindsided
Adventures in a floating hide
5 min |
May/June 2022
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Breaking Point
Widespread decline of Kenya's raptors
2 min |
May/June 2022
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TOO SOON TO panic
Are false-alarm flights beneficial?
3 min |
May/June 2022
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the other ANGOLA
Atlasing in the Eastern Cape
5 min |
May/June 2022
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SEEING THE WOOD FOR THE TREES
Widespread responses of birds to woody encroachment
2 min |
May/June 2022
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pride of place
Mauritius Kestrel designated official national bird
3 min |
May/June 2022
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ocean wanderers
A collection of seabird images, brought to you by MSC Cruises, to celebrate some of the special species seen on the Flock to Marion voyage.
3 min |
May/June 2022
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Sightings in the Subregion
Mid-November 2021 to mid-January 2022 -Summer delivered some top-shelf birds and fortunately a number of the best ones stayed sufficiently long to be twitchable for many birders throughout the region.
5 min |
March/April 2022
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Spread-eagled
Brown Snake Eagle’s epic tussle
4 min |
March/April 2022
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On track
The Bar-tailed Godwit is re-nowned for having one of the most extreme migrations, flying non-stop from Alaska to winter in New Zealand.
2 min |
March/April 2022
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Spectacular!
The recovery of the Spectacled Petrel population
7 min |
March/April 2022
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Field of Dreams
Harriers quartering the Devon grasslands
9 min |
March/April 2022
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Strike Force
Gannets are supremely adapted for plunge-diving. They lack external nostrils and have air sacs under their skin to cushion the impact of striking the water.
4 min |
March/April 2022
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The Eyes Have It
Iris coloration in birds (particularly passerines) is a topic that has intrigued me ever since I started observing the behaviour of different starling species.
7 min |
March/April 2022
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The Young & the Restless Peregrine Falcons
It is 04h30 and I am woken from fitful sleep by a clamour of screeching, seemingly right next to my head. It takes a second for me to orientate myself and process what is happening. I am sleeping on a lumpy fold-out chair on the fifth floor of the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Rondebosch, Cape Town, and I realise that about a metre above my head is one of the breeding boxes for the hospital’s well known Peregrine Falcons. The juveniles are up early and in a demanding mood.
5 min |
March/April 2022
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With This Ring... The Birding Ties That Bind
Most tales that involve a convoluted plot with unlikely twists and turns and a contrived ending are usually found in a Jane Harper novel or an M. Night Shyamalan movie, but this one is real and involves two Russian Western Ospreys.
6 min |
March/April 2022
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Tern Around
"The Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve, established in 1939, forms a key component of the Table Mountain National Park."
3 min |
January/February 2022
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Free for All
"In august 2020 the results of the critical vulture nesting survey held annually in Zululand, northern KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), were sobering."
3 min |
January/February 2022
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Clear and Present Dangers
"Like many seabirds, Cape Gan-nets breed only on offshore is-lands, where they are safe from terrestrial predators."
4 min |
January/February 2022
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Throwing shade
The challenges of photographing in a forest
6 min |
January/February 2022
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Twitter FEED
August sees the greatest flurry of birds at our feeders.
3 min |
January/February 2022
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Urban Perils - House Sparrows on the decline
Supertramps are species that have spread around the world in association with humans and they include rats, house mice and a host of weedy plant species.
5 min |