Gertie the Guineafowl
The first of a series where we get to know the characters that add the most colour to our skies.
Bird of the year 2022
Algoa Bay|Bird Island|Cape Gannet|coastal seabird|conservation|editorial|education|islands|Mark Anderson|marketing|Namibia|nests|population decline|poster|seabirds
Rara avis: Peter Steyn in conversation with Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk
birding|conservation|digital images|education|GPS|mentor|observation|patience|Peter Steyn|southern Africa|twitching|Verreaux’s Eagle
News: Celebrating World Albatross Day; New Coastal Seabird manager; Meet our new president; Update: the De Hoop penguin colony; Laying a foundation for the future; Vultures and the economics of disease; Welcome back, Bronwyn; Bird club milestones; Giving interns wings
“Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels”|”Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan”|”BirdLife International Marine Programme”|”Critically Endangered”|”International Union for the Conservation of Nature”|”Rand Barbet Bird Club”|ACAP|Adam Naylor|African Penguins|Albatross Task Force|Albert Froneman|Andrea Angel|Andrew Aveley|BirdLife Plettenberg Bay|BirdLife President Ridge|breeding colony|Bronwyn Maree|children|Christina Hagen|Colleen Downs|EAFI|East Atlantic Flyway Initiative|education|Esme Goodwin|Gill Hardingham|Gough Island.|Hiral Naik|IUCN|John Cooper|John Dickens|Kelp Gull|Kristi Garland|learners|Linda van den Heever|Lucky Ngwenya|Mark Anderson|Michelle Risi|Monty Brett|Nolumanyano Camagu|Old World vultures|Pamela Isdell|Plett Bird Club|Reason Nyengera|school|Sherry Knudsen|Shireen Gould|Tegan Carpenter-Kling|Tristan Albatross|Wakkerstroom Centre
Taking the red-eye flight to KZN: Grey-headed Gull; Sharing conservation stories via weekly webinars; Community bird guides need help; A familiar face in a new role; Expedition to Ethiopia: Studying the White-winged Flufftail; White-winged Flufftail conservation action; New Policy and Advocacy manager; The coarse and the fine combine: SABAP2 and SDM together make a formidable conservation planning tool
“African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbird Agreement”|”Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus”|”Critical Biodiversity Areas”|”Department of Environment|”Grey-headed Gulls”|”Hanneline Smit-Robinson”|”International Single Species Action Plan”|”Johannesburg Wildlife Hospital”|”Keeping Common Birds Common”|”Melissa Howes-Whitecross”|”Orange Ground Thrush”|”Policy and Advocacy Programme”|”Science and Innovation Programme”|”Species Distribution Models”|ACSA|AEWA|African Penguins|Airports Company South Africa|Albert Froneman|Alistair McInnes|alphanumeric leg rings|Andrew De Blocq|Avitourism Project|Bird Guide Relief Fund|bird rings|Caroline Howes-Whitecross|CBA|conservation|Conservation Conversations|COVID-20|Craig Nattrass|De Hoop Nature Reserve|education|Empowering People Programme|Ernst Retief|Ethiopia|extinction|Forestry and Fisheries”|fundraising|Gareth Chittenden|GSM tracking devices|gull-strike|Lake St Lucia|Landscape Conservation Programme|law|legislation|Lockdown|Mark Anderson|Melissa Hoffmann|Melissa Lewis|Middelpunt Wetland|migration|nests|Oliver Tambo airport|online|OR Tambo international|ORTIA|remote working|Robin Colyn|SABAP3|Sarothrura ayresi|Seabirds Programme|Sergey Dereliev|virtual|webinars|White-winged Flufftail|Zoom