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

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Sex and the single plover

“White-fronted Plover”|breeding|Eurasian Dotterel|Greater Painted-snipe|Kentish Plover|Kittlitz’s Plover|mating|monogamous|monogamy|Pectoral Sandpiper|Peter Ryan|polygamous|polygamy|Ruff Sandpiper|sexual reproduction|shorebirds|Snowy Plover|Spotted Sandpiper

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