Animals-and-Pets
African Birdlife
sightings IN THE SUBREGION
Mid-September to mid-November 2022
4 min |
January/February 2023
African Birdlife
cryptic conundrun
Can you rise to the challenge and identify this African bird species? Consider all the likely variables and then test yourself – it’s not always as easy as it looks! If you enter and your identification is correct, you stand in line to win a pair of binoculars that will help take your birding to the next level…
1 min |
January/February 2023
African Birdlife
DDT dangers
Global monitoring in raptors
2 min |
January/February 2023
African Birdlife
duck OR dive
Predator-avoidance tactics
3 min |
January/February 2023
African Birdlife
synthetic fibre blues
The penduline-tits (Remizidae) are a small family of 11 species in three genera allied to the true tits (Paridae). Most species construct intricately woven nests that are suspended from branches, which explains their common name.
2 min |
January/February 2023
African Birdlife
Príncipe Scops Owl
In July 2016, the presence of a scops owl was confirmed on Príncipe, the smaller of the two islands that comprise the tiny island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe in the Gulf of Guinea (African Birdlife 5(1): 10).
1 min |
January/February 2023
African Birdlife
cause &effect
Drop in Lesser Kestrel numbers
2 min |
January/February 2023
African Birdlife
change your tune
Coping with noisy neighbours
1 min |
January/February 2023
African Birdlife
contact tracing
Feather lice transmission between seabirds
3 min |
January/February 2023
African Birdlife
adapt-a-bill
Yet more cryptic prions
4 min |
January/February 2023
African Birdlife
Thermal BUFFER
Forest birds reveal their physiological secrets
4 min |
November/December 2022
African Birdlife
Dancers IN THE desert
The return of Ostriches to the Sahara
7 min |
November/December 2022
African Birdlife
Killer moves
After two years of being prevented from visiting Mashatu Game Reserve in Botswana because of the pandemic, we were excited to return to this magical wilderness in the first week of December 2021.
2 min |
November/December 2022
African Birdlife
Wetland wonder
ABOUT 200 KILOMETRES north of Johannesburg and straddling the floodplain of the Nyl River, Nylsvley Nature Reserve is a much-visited birding destination in Limpopo Province.
2 min |
November/December 2022
African Birdlife
Paradise found?
Searching for Taita Falcons in Niassa Special Reserve
8 min |
November/December 2022
African Birdlife
Trogon travails
The trials of nesting Narinas
3 min |
November/December 2022
African Birdlife
Reno rip-off
It is always fascinating to witness the skill with which Southern Masked Weavers go about building their nests.
1 min |
November/December 2022
African Birdlife
DE HOOP ror penguins
For the past five years, BirdLife South Africa has been working to re-establish an African Penguin colony at De Hoop Nature Reserve.
2 min |
November/December 2022
African Birdlife
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'.
7 min |
November/December 2022
African Birdlife
In too deep
Magazines make difficult things look easy. Weight loss, happy marriages, and underwater birding are just three examples that come to mind.
3 min |
November/December 2022
African Birdlife
Birds of Bubye
Birding in Zimbabwe's Bubye Valley Conservancy
7 min |
September/October 2022
African Birdlife
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.
2 min |
September/October 2022
African Birdlife
mother lode
Atlasing Cape Town’s CBD
5 min |
September/October 2022
African Birdlife
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.
2 min |
September/October 2022
African Birdlife
shady lady
Photographing the African Finfoot
4 min |
September/October 2022
African Birdlife
Mozambique
WAITING TO BE EXPLORED
9 min |
September/October 2022
African Birdlife
expansion drive
Black Sparrowhawks
5 min |
September/October 2022
African Birdlife
Cache & carry
The feeding and social behaviour of honeyguides
2 min |
September/October 2022
African Birdlife
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.
2 min |
September/October 2022
African Birdlife
adapt & dive
Penguin evolution and conservation
3 min |