The dark side: do dark upperwings improve flight performance?; Bugged: are alien fly parasites attacking our birds?; On the shelf

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“Bridled Tern”|aerofoil|book review|Diomedea albatross|Fansie Peacock|flight|Hans Larsson|house fly|illustrator|invasive species|John Gale|Loki Snyman|Lynn Ravat|maggots|Martin Perrow|nestlings|New Caledonian Storm Petrel|Peter Harrison|Peter Ryan|seabirds|Seabirds: The new identification guide|Sooty Tern|South African National Antarctic Programme|Svana Rogalla

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

On the flip side; Royal flush?; Finders eaters; Adapting to the new normal; On the shelf

“African Oystercatchers”|”Diomedea epomophora”|”Observations and experiences with birds breeding in Botsw ana”|”Peacocks and Picathartes: Reflections on Africa’s birdlife”|”Phalaropus fulicarius”|”Physalia physalis”|”Whitefronted Plovers”|Alpine Swift|Blacksmith Lapwings|book review|breeding|Caspian Terns|Cliff Dorse|COVID-19|dynamic soaring|flying|Grey Heron|Hummingbirds|Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk|Kelp Gulls|Ken Oake|kleptoparasitism|litter|Little Egrets|Lockdown|lockdown list|Mel Oake|Muizenberg|Northern Royal Albatross|Peter Ryan|plastic|pollution|Portuguese man o’ war|Red Phalarope|Rob Little|Rupert Watson|Sacred Ibis|Sandvlei|siphonophore|Southern Royal Albatross|taxonomy|upside down|Wandering Albatross|White-fronted Plovers