Zululand zenith

“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

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

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

The secret life of Godwits; Stop the killings; Rate of return; Better late than never

“Critically Endangered”|”Donovan Smith”|”Hans Hoheisen Charitable Trust”|”Hooded Vultures”|”Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance”|”Organization for the Defence and Development of Wetlands”|”Peregrine Fund”|”Royal Society for the Protection of Birds”|”Striped Flufftail”|”Vulture Specialist Group”|#StopTheKillings|Albert Froneman|Andreas Trepte|Birdlife International|Black-tailed Godwits|breeding season|Cape Grassbird|Cape Longclaw|Cape Sugarbird|Carlos Lopes|Chevonne Reynolds|Cloud cisticolas|COVID-20|Debbie Smith|Dom Rollinson|Doug Harebottle|Ester van der Westhuizen-Coetzer|fire|Fynbos|geolocator|Grey-backed Cisticola|Guinea-Bissau|Hottentot Buttonquail|IUCN|Kamfers Dam|Lesser Flamingos|Levaillant’s Cisticola|Lockdown|Malachite Sunbirds|mass killings|Mo Verhoeven|nests|Orange-breasted Sunbirds|pesticide|Peter Ryan|petition|poisoning|Rebecca Garbett|Red bishops|Robin Colyn|RSPB|Steenberg Plateau|Susie Cunningham|Tania Ander son|University of Cape Town|University of Groningen|VCF|Vulture Conservation Foundation|vultures|Yellow bishops|Zitting Cisticola

Mother lode: Atlassing Cape Town’s CBD

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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.