Animals-and-Pets
African Birdlife
Heated murmurations
The Kgalagadi National Park always delivers, as Jim and Eve - and some Lanner Falcons - discovered.
3 min |
May/June 2023
African Birdlife
a hole lot of rollers
I have been fortunate to take an annual trip to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park for the past few years where I enjoy photographing the birdlife and wildlife that this beautiful park has to offer.
1 min |
May/June 2023
African Birdlife
VITAL SIGNS
The waterbirds of Knysna Estuary
7 min |
May/June 2023
African Birdlife
no boundaries for BLUE FEATHERS
World Migratory Bird Day is celebrated on 15 May and 14 October. This month we wish the European Roller well on its difficult journey to its northern breeding grounds, including Ukraine and Russia.
2 min |
May/June 2023
African Birdlife
Southern SIGHTINGS
The late summer period produced some great sightings, including a new bird for the southern Africa subregion, giving birders plenty to keep themselves entertained.
4 min |
May/June 2023
African Birdlife
AGULHAS LONG-BILLED LARK
Getting intimate with an Overberg endemic
2 min |
May/June 2023
African Birdlife
into the BLACK
Plumage variation in the White-breasted Cormorant Phalacrocorax lucidus has always presented a taxonomic challenge.
1 min |
May/June 2023
African Birdlife
Remembering PETER MUNDY 1941-2023
Peter was [at Oxford] to read zoology, but opted instead to read the complete works of Dostoevsky and to learn to play the baritone saxophone. Inevitably, he was rusticated and he spent the next few years playing saxophone with various R'n'B bands, ending up with Screaming Lord Sutch
6 min |
May/June 2023
African Birdlife
SHOWCASE
We receive remarkable images on a regular basis, but are not always able to find space for them in our pages.
2 min |
March 2023
African Birdlife
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.
3 min |
March 2023
African Birdlife
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.
2 min |
March 2023
African Birdlife
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.
2 min |
March 2023
African Birdlife
Image Conscious
How photographs benefit birders
3 min |
March 2023
African Birdlife
Challenge Accepted
Photographing swallows in flight
2 min |
March 2023
African Birdlife
Hatch & Dispatch
Diederik Cuckoo breeding strategy
1 min |
March 2023
African Birdlife
Breeding IN THE bushveld
Pearl-spotted Owlets
6 min |
March 2023
African Birdlife
WHERE AND WHEN TO go?
Questions for nomadic birds
6 min |
March 2023
African Birdlife
Beneath THE canopys
The Congo's Odzala-Kokoua National Park
4 min |
March 2023
African Birdlife
Chasing Rainbows
In pursuit of the African Pittal
10 min |
March 2023
African Birdlife
Serendipity
Embracing the Patagonia Picnic Table Effect
5 min |
March 2023
African Birdlife
GOING ALL OUT
A really big birding year
7 min |
March 2023
African Birdlife
Sightings IN THE SUBREGION
Midsummer produced a wealth of good and entertaining birding and some mouth-watering specials that had twitchers dropping everything to rush off and see them.
4 min |
March 2023
African Birdlife
WHEN IS sharp ENOUGH?
We as humans intuitively mistrust Artificial Intelligence.
3 min |
March 2023
African Birdlife
THE winds OF change
The start of 2023 saw two major changes at the Fitz.
2 min |
March 2023
African Birdlife
EXPLOSIVE SPECIATION
The rapid radiation of white-eyes
3 min |
March 2023
African Birdlife
FOLLOW THAT SHIP
Albatrosses refine their ship-following behaviour
3 min |
March 2023
African Birdlife
A world view
Bird Life's flagship State of the World's Birds report paints the most concerning picture for the natural world yet, with nearly half of the world's bird species now in decline. While further underlining that we are in the midst of a biodiversity crisis, it also highlights the critical solutions we desperately need to save nature. And political will and financial commitment are urgently required if these solutions are to be implemented at scale and at pace.
6 min |
January/February 2023
African Birdlife
A pillar of conservation
Ntsikeni Nature Reserve
7 min |
January/February 2023
African Birdlife
An AEWA spotlight on local successes
As shared species whose effective conservation hinges on collaboration across multiple countries, migratory birds have a long history in international law.
2 min |
January/February 2023
African Birdlife
A bird of the forest Cape Parrot
With the announcement of the Cape Parrot Poicephalus robustus as BirdLife South Africa’s Bird of the Year 2023, there was great excitement that the country’s only endemic parrot was finally getting the recognition it deserves.
4 min |