Country bird, city bird
A comparison of bird communities in
and around four South African cities
Inbox: All change; Long gone; Spotting Thick-knees; Miwinilunga memories
Arjun Amar|Athol Abdo|Black Sparrowhawk|Blue-billed Teal|chicks|Clayton Botkin|eggs|Frank Willems|Harriet Nimmo|International Wild Waterfowl Association|IWWA|Julia van Velden|Long-crested Eagle|mites|nest|Peter Ryan|Spatula hottentota|Spotted thick-knee|waterbirds|Wattled Crane|Werner Smit|What’s in a name|Zambia
Garden Watch: Twitter feed
Black Sparrowhawk|COVID-19|David Hoddinott|Hadeda Ibis|Jennifer Lean|Little Sparrowhawk|Lockdown|Malachite Sunbird|wood-hoopoe|woodpecker|Yellow-billed Kite
Inbox: Mission impossible; Battleground; Done and Run; Praise indeed
Black Sparrowhawk|Bokmakierie|cats|congratulations|COVID-19|Cuckoo Finch|Doug Charlton|Fan-tailed Grassbird|Karoo Thrush|Lesser Seedcracker|letters|Lockdown|Peter Rosewarn|Peter Steyn|praise|Pyrenestes minor|raptor|Shortwinged Cisticola|Stefan Heydenreich
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
Mother lode: Atlassing Cape Town’s CBD
I live in Cape Town’s City Bowl and my home pentad, 3355_1820, is one of my favourite places to go
birding. Comprising the Cape Town CBD, a large swathe of Table Mountain and 40 per cent ocean,
this pentad wouldn’t strike anyone as being the most bird-rich area in the country. The CBD seems to
contain little more than Red-winged Starlings and Rock Doves and the local parks are dominated by
dog walkers and tourists. And yet on deeper exploration, it is rich in endemic and scarce species and
any birding outing is set against the magnificent backdrop of Table Mountain, urban landscapes and
the Atlantic Ocean.