Birders love to find rare birds; few things match the excitement
of coming across something completely unexpected.
But the obsession with rarities can result in population
changes in more common birds being overlooked. Breeding
bird surveys in Europe, Asia and North America show
that many bird populations are in flux, but what do we
know about the status of common birds in South Africa?
“African Dusky flycatchers”|”African Green Pigeons”|”African Stonechats”|”Black-bellied Glossy Starlings”|”Brimstone Canary”|”Bushveld Pipit”|”Crested Guineafowl”|”Dark Chanting Goshawks”|”Hooded Vultures”|”Hottentot Teal “|”Lesser Striped Swallows”|”Red-crested Bustard”|”Whiteeared Barbets”|accipiter|Adam Riley|African Cuckoo Hawk|Bateleur|Bennett’s Woodpeckers|BirdLasser Lockdown Challenge|Black Cuckooshrike|Black-rumped Buttonquail|Blue-mantled Crested Flycatchers|Cape Batises|Cape Rock Thrush|Common Buttonquails|Common Buzzard|COVID-19|Crowned Eagle|Dark-capped Bulbul|Diederik cuckoos|Eastern Nicator|ecotourism|Fiscal flycatchers|Gorgeous Bushshrike|Great White Pelican|Grey Waxbills|Jackal Buzzards|Klaas’s cuckoos|Lockdown|Magpie Shrike|Martial Eagle|Mocking Cliff Chat|Neergaard’s Sunbird|Ovambo|Pink-throated Twinspots|Plain-backed Pipit|Quailfinches|Red-headed Weaver|Rock Kestrel|Shelley’s Francolin|Striped Pipit|Trumpeter Hornbills|Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl|Violet-backed Starling|Wattled Starlings|Woodland Kingfisher