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RISING TEMPERATURES, RISING RISKS

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May/June 2025

Climate change is progressing at a frightening rate, with floods, fires and extreme heat dominating the news cycle. First 2023, then 2024, were confirmed the hottest year in recorded history.

- SUSAN CUNNINGHAM AND SHANNON CONRADIE

RISING TEMPERATURES, RISING RISKS

Conservation biologists are scrambling to find effective interventions in the face of this crisis.

Increasingly, researchers are using a tool called 'biophysical modelling' to understand thermal tolerance limits of wild species and plot where and when these limits will be exceeded as the climate warms – information that can guide conservation management.

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African Birdlife

Southern SIGHTINGS

MID-JULY TO MID-SEPTEMBER 2025

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2 mins

November/December 2025

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African Birdlife

BLUE CRANE

A symbol of pride and vulnerability

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6 mins

November/December 2025

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African Birdlife

CHAOS AT THE KOM

Between 1 and 3 December 2024 there was a remarkable sardine run off Kommetjie on the Cape Peninsula.

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1 min

November/December 2025

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African Birdlife

Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

Whatever form they take, from peatlands to estuaries, wetlands are critical for the survival of waterbirds, such as the White-winged Flufftail, Maccoa Duck and Grey Crowned Crane. They are highly productive ecosystems that are characterised by diverse and abundant food sources and they provide essential feeding, breeding, migratory and resting habitat for numerous species. iSimangaliso Wetland Park, for example, supports more than 500 bird species.

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1 mins

November/December 2025

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African Birdlife

FRAMING wild feathers

WINNERS OF THE BIRDLIFE SOUTH AFRICA PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION 2025

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4 mins

November/December 2025

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African Birdlife

PITTA PILGRIMAGE

Look there - on that branch, behind those green leaves!’ Crouching in thick forest, with sweat dripping, heart pounding and eyes straining, I frantically searched with my binoculars, trying to work out which branch, which green leaves - indeed, which darned tree? I was close to panicking as we had come so far, and yet I just couldn't see where our guide was pointing.

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4 mins

November/December 2025

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African Birdlife

Unlocking a DIGITAL WORLD of bird stories

For more than 75 years, the South African Bird Ringing Unit (SAFRING), now hosted by the FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, has woven together the complex life stories of southern Africa's birds.

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1 mins

November/December 2025

African Birdlife

MIRRORLESS MARVEL

Testing Canon's R1 in the field

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3 mins

November/December 2025

African Birdlife

African Birdlife

Is NECHISAR NIGHTJAR a hybrid?

Vernon Head's award-winning book The Search for the Rarest Bird in the World brought widespread attention to the curious case of the Nechisar Nightjar. In 1992, a dead nightjar was found on a dirt road in Nechisar National Park, southern Ethiopia. A wing was collected and the bird was later described as a new species based on its distinctive large white wing patch. Its scientific name, Caprimulgus solala, attests to the fact that it is known only from a single wing.

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2 mins

November/December 2025

African Birdlife

African Birdlife

a TALL Tail

In the high grass of eastern South Africa, midsummer is when the Long-tailed Widowbird transforms the veld into a stage.

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1 min

November/December 2025

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