No boundaries for blue feathers
World Migratory Bird Day is celebrated on 13 May and 14 October.
This month we wish the European Roller well on its difficult journey to
its northern breeding grounds, including Ukraine and Russia.
Stay or go? Migration as an evolutionary driver
Antarctic Tern|Bar-tailed Godwit|Black Harrier|Eurasian Blackcape|Falco falcons|Grey Plover|House Martin|Hugh Chittenden|Jonathan Rolland|landbirds|Leach’s Storm Petrel|Michelle Vrettos|migration|migratory|Northern Wheatear|Pectoral Sandpiper|Peter Ryan|Phil Hockey|Pterodroma petrels|Ruddy Turnstone|Sanderling|seabirds|Trevor Hardaker|Whimbrel|White Stork
Ringing in the changes: Sandwich terns in South Africa
alpha-numeric code|bird behaviour|bird ringing|bird sightings|breeding sites|British Isles|camera|cape agulhas|colour rings|Eerste River mouth|engraved rings|false bay|field-readable|flag rings|Gansbaai|Greenways beach|Macassar|metal rings|migration|national ringing organizations|non-breeding|Sandwich terns|telescope|Thalasseus sandvicensis|Theuns Kruger
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
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