News: Feather light: Leucistic White-fronted Plover – or is it?; Ice and memory: Peregrine Falcon migration; Birds to watch: American Cliff Swallow; Altogether now: living in groups makes you clever; Just rewards: Global recognition for Mabula Ground Hornbill Project
albino|Andrew McKechnie|Arnau Soler|Barn Swallow|breeding|climate|colonies|coloration|Don Debold|Grey-headed Albatross|Hein van Grouw|incubation|Jeff Davis|leucism|melanin|migration|P. rufigula|P. spilodera|Peter Ryan|Petrochelidon pyrrhonota|plumage|Red-throated Cliff Swallow|shorebirds|Sombre Greenbul|South African Cliff Swallow
Dead heat
African fruit bats|Andrew McKechnie|Blue Waxbills|Carnaby’s Black Cockatoos|endangered|FitzPatrick Institute|Fork-tailed Drongos|Green-winged Pytilias|Grey Tit-Flycatcher|heatwave|Hot Birds Research Project|Magpie Shrikes|Manyoni Private Game Reserve|mortality|Phongolo Nature Reserve|Susan Cunningham|Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bats|Willow Warbler|Yellow-fronted Canaries
News & Views: Tristan Triumph; Something in the water; Bigger and bigger; Feeling chirpy; Facing climate challenges; Old baldy; On the shelf
“Aepyornis maximus”|A. titan|African Penguin|Albert Froneman|Andrew McKechnie|Atlantic Petrel|Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross|avian systematics|Birdlife International|Birds of East Africa|Black Sparrowhawk|book review|Boulders beach|Cape Wagtail|climate change|COVID-19|Dassen Island|DNA|Dromornis stirtoni|Duncan Butchart|eDNA|elephant bird|endangered|environmental DNA|extinct|field guide|Fiscal Flycatcher|Gough Island.|Gouldian Finch|infestation|Jessica Law|John Fanshawe|Katta Ludynia|Liz Hardman|Lockdown|Madacascar|Marine Protection Zone|mice|mirihungs|mites|Nicola van Wilgen|noise pollution|Northern Rockhopper Penguin|overfishing|Peregrine Falcon|Peter Ryan|population decline|Red-headed Finch|Rock Dove|RSPB|SANCCOB|SANParks|seabirds|Spectacled Petrel|Terry Stevenson|Tristan Albatross|Tristan da Cunha|Vorombe|vulnerable|Wendy Foden|White-crowned Sparrow|WWF
A black and white answer: Bird fatalities at wind farms; How low can you go: Cooling off period for hummingbirds; Hot stuff: Red-billed Queleas rewrite the record books; Windswept; On the shelf
“Birds and Renewable Energy Specialist Group”|”Black Metaltail”|”Bronze-tailed Comet”|”Diomedea exulans”|”Dominic Rollinson”|”Grey-headed Albatrosses “|”Sasol Birds of Southern Africa”|”University of Pretoria”|”Warwick Tarboton”|”White-tailed Eagle “|ageing|Albert Froneman|American Kestrels|Andrew McKechnie|biologging|BirdLasser|Blair Wolf|body temperature|book review|collisions|Common Poorwill|Crozet Archipelago|David Allan|David Ambrose|David Hlosi Sishozonke Maphisa|Faansie Peacock|Falco sparverius|fatalities|foraging|Giant Hummingbird|guide|Haliaeetus albicilla|Hummingbirds|hyperthermia|Ian Sinclair|Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk|Kalahari|Lesotho Annotated Bibliography|Marc Freeman|Marsh Tits|National University of Lesotho|Niall Perrins|Peter Ryan|Phil Hockey|Quelea quelea|raptors|Red-billed Queleas|Roberts|SABAP|Samantha Ralston-Paton|senescence|Sparkling Violetear|Thalassarche chrysostoma|Tommy Clay|torpor|tracking|turbines|University of Maryland|Wandering Albatross|Weimerskirch|William Hodos
Hot flushes: How Southern Ground-Hornbills keep their cool
“Andries Janse van Vuuren”|”Mabula Ground Hornbill Project”|”University of Pretoria”|Alan Kemp|Andrew McKechnie|beak|climate change|heat loss|heat radiator|heat-intolerant|Lucy Kemp|Marietjie Froneman|Meg Kemp|MGHP|National Zoological Garden|Pretoria|Southern Ground-Hornbill|thermal image|Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl