Owl awards 2022

Each year BirdLife South Africa presents Owl Awards to members of the birding community who have made outstanding efforts to help 'give conservation wings'.

In too deep

Magazines make difficult things look easy. Weight loss, happy marriages, and underwater birding are just three examples that come to mind.

Birds of Bubye

Birding in Zimbabwe's Bubye Valley Conservancy

defying the ODDS

I must admit that the birdlife in our Western Cape garden is always ex-citing: owls, goshawks and a host of other less common species grace us with their presence, due mainly to the proximity of a yellowwood forest.

mother lode

Atlasing Cape Town’s CBD

hunger strike

It was 07h00 one morning in late November last year at the Klein Okevi waterhole near Namutoni in the eastern part of Namibia’s Etosha National Park.

shady lady

Photographing the African Finfoot

Mozambique

WAITING TO BE EXPLORED

expansion drive

Black Sparrowhawks

Cache & carry

The feeding and social behaviour of honeyguides

sightings IN THE SUBREGION

The shining star was undoubtedly southern Africa's first ever Wood Warbler, found by a visiting British birder at Sefapane Lodge in Phalaborwa.

adapt & dive

Penguin evolution and conservation

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Finding the Laughing Gull

Follow your leader

Male Caspian Tern parents lead the way

Rest & recover

The diverse functions of stopovers for migrants

The Great Divide

Birding the Swartberg Pass

Gough Island Blues

It was 14 December 2021 and I was feeling pretty good.

Outward Bound

Maputo National Park, Mozambique

Team Work

Cape Gannets eat a diversity of fish and the occasional squid and also scavenge from trawlers.

Conserving Forest Birds

The benefits of protected area status

Blindsided

Adventures in a floating hide

Breaking Point

Widespread decline of Kenya's raptors

TOO SOON TO panic

Are false-alarm flights beneficial?

the other ANGOLA

Atlasing in the Eastern Cape

SEEING THE WOOD FOR THE TREES

Widespread responses of birds to woody encroachment

pride of place

Mauritius Kestrel designated official national bird

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.

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.

Spread-eagled

Brown Snake Eagle’s epic tussle

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.