Archives: Melissa Whitecross

Birdlife South Africa News: Fabulous Flock! Highlights from Flock to the Wilderness 2023; Into the wilderness; Community bird guides at Flock to the Wilderness; Bird club milestones; A stellar career; A change of the guard; Birding Big Day: 2 December 2023

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Vital signs: The waterbirds of Knysna Estuary

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PAOC at Victoria Falls

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More than birds…; Learn About Birds is for everyone

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Let’s atlas Lesotho’s birds; Three new birding routes for South Africa; Bird guides & butterflies; Save the date!; Joining the team; Ntsikeni: of cattle and cranes

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A pillar of conservation: Ntsikeni Nature Reserve; Birdlife South Africa’s Members’ Directors; Flock with us! Flock to Wilderness 24-28 May 2023; Middelpunt: A new nature reserve; An AEWA spotlight on local successes; Penguins breeding at de Hoop; Listing for conservation; Botha’s Lark: Conservation and Research Working Group; Putting ‘community’ into community bird guides

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What’s your weight?; OECMs in South Africa; Looking for terrestrials of the alien kind; Lean in venison: cause for concern?; Our national pride: endemic birds; Save the date: 24 August 2024; Introducing colour to renewable energy

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Farewell to a friend

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Andrew de Blocq, former
penguinologist and Avitourism
Project Manager at BirdLife
South Africa, has left the nest
after six years. We asked
him about the highlights and
challenges, what’s new on his
horizon and why New Zealand
police officers make the best
birders.

Ice bound: journey to the end of the earth; Help us help: White-winged Flufftails; Five-year plans: developing conservation programme strategies; Owl Awards 2021; Resistance to mining at Mabola; Finding Cape Rockjumpers

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“Critically Endangered”|”Hanneline Smit-Robinson”|”Warwick Tarboton”|Adelie Penguin|Alistair McInnes|Antarctica|colony count|Department of Forestry|donations|Emperor Penguin|Fisheries and the Environment|fundraising|Kyle Lloyd|Makhudu Masotla|Matthew Spoor|Melissa Whitecross|Nicholas Bunn|Polar Skua|SA Agulhas|seabirds|Sipho Ndebele|Snow Petrel|South African National Antarctic Expedition|Southern ocean|Tegan Carpenter-Kling|Wandering Albatross

Kicking off

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Cape cobra|Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park|Kij Kij|Melissa Whitecross|Rooiputs|Scott Chalmers|Secretarybird|Twee Rivieren