show & tell

African Broadbill display

sightings IN THE SUBREGION

Mid-September to mid-November 2022

cryptic conundrun

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DDT dangers

Global monitoring in raptors

duck OR dive

Predator-avoidance tactics

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.

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).

cause &effect

Drop in Lesser Kestrel numbers

change your tune

Coping with noisy neighbours

contact tracing

Feather lice transmission between seabirds

adapt-a-bill

Yet more cryptic prions

Thermal BUFFER

Forest birds reveal their physiological secrets

Dancers IN THE desert

The return of Ostriches to the Sahara

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.

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.

Paradise found?

Searching for Taita Falcons in Niassa Special Reserve

Trogon travails

The trials of nesting Narinas

Reno rip-off

It is always fascinating to witness the skill with which Southern Masked Weavers go about building their nests.

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.

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.