African Birdlife (March / April 2022)

Beating the odds

Inbox: Rocking rollers; Parasitised Prinia; A time and a place; Rallid rollout; Swift reaction

News & Views: On track: Hidden diversity inBar-tailed Godwits; High swells impact Cape Gannets; Mthatha tolerance; Pale reflection: Juvenile plumage of the Protea Canary; On the shelf: The amazing story of Montagu's Harrier

Ticking boxes

Sightings in the subregion

The eyes have it

Spectacular: The recovery of the Spectacled Petrel population

Gaps, maps and a Northern Cape bash

Weather beaten: African Green Pigeon acrobatics

With this ring... The birding ties that bind

Field of dreams: Harriers quartering the Devon grasslands

The young and the restless: Peregrine Falcons

Spread-eagled: Brown Snake Eagle's epic tussle

Strike force

Vested interests: The complicated balancing act of subsistence farming and nature conservation in Ndumo Game Reserve

Out of the woods

Birdlife South Africa News: Secretarybirds: round two; BBD 2021 bigger than ever; Ingula's birding gurus; A family's big year; Red List changes for African birds; New team members

Twist and shout