Southern Sightings
The late summer period naturally
started quietening down after
the midsummer excitement, but
there were still some classy rarities
on offer for birders all over
the subregion. As always, none
of the records included here have
been adjudicated by any of the
subregion’s Rarities Committees.
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
Sightings in the subregion
“Ross’s Turaco”|Albert McLean|Australasian Gannet|Baird’s Sandpiper|Barau’s Petrel|Digby Cyrus|Egyptian Vulture|Golden Pipit|Great Frigatebirds|Ian White|Justin Nicolau|Lesser Black-backed Gulls|Lesser Noddy|Mike O’Donoghue|Northern Royal Albatross|Pectoral Sandpiper|Peter Ryan|Saunders’s Tern|Southern Royal Albatross|Spectacled Petrel|Trevor Hardaker|Tristan Albatross|Tropical Shearwater|White-throated Bee-eater|Yellow-throated Leafloves
Sex and the single plover
“White-fronted Plover”|breeding|Eurasian Dotterel|Greater Painted-snipe|Kentish Plover|Kittlitz’s Plover|mating|monogamous|monogamy|Pectoral Sandpiper|Peter Ryan|polygamous|polygamy|Ruff Sandpiper|sexual reproduction|shorebirds|Snowy Plover|Spotted Sandpiper
Sightings in the subregion
“Common Redshank”|”Lesser Black-backed Gull”|”Red-necked Phalarope”|”Ross’s Turaco”|Albert McLean|American Golden Plover|Anne Cousins|Australasian Gannet|Baird’s Sandpiper|Barau’s Petrel|Crab Plover|Elegant Tern|Eurasian Oystercatcher|Golden Pipit|Green Sandpipers|Grey Petrel|Pectoral Sandpiper|Red-footed Booby|Sooty Tern|Southern Royal Albatross|Spectacled Petrel|Spur-winged Lapwing|Strandfontein|Trevor Hardaker|Yellow-throated Leaf-love