Sightings in the subregion

“Lesser Black-backed Gull”|”Red-necked Phalarope”|”Ross’s Turaco”|Australasian Gannet|Crab Plover|Eurasian Oystercatcher|Lesser Noddy|Lesser Whitethroat|Mike Buckham|Northern Rockhopper Penguin|Northern Royal Albatross|Red-footed Booby|Sooty Tern|Southern Fulmar|Southern Royal Albatross|Spectacled Petrel|Striped Crake|Trevor Hardaker|Tropical Shearwater|Wandering Albatross|warbler|Yellow-throated Leaflove

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

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“Brown Firefinch”|”Ross’s Turaco”|Bare-cheeked Babblers|Bradfield’s Hornbill|Burchell’s Sandgrouse|Coppery-tailed Coucal|Double-banded Sandgrouse|Grey Go-away-birds|Halali Camp|Hartlaub’s Babblers|Herero Chat|Meyer’s Parrot|Mike Buckham|Namaqua Sandgrouse|Okaukuejo|Pink-billed Larks|Red-billed oxpeckers|Red-billed Spurfowls|roan antelope|Rufous-eared Warbler|Stark’s Lark|Swamp Boubous|Violet Wood-hoopoes|White-backed Night Herons|Yellow-billed oxpeckers

Sightings in the subregion

“Lesser Blackbacked Gull”|”Ross’s Turaco”|Australasian Gannet|Baird’s Sandpiper|Broad-billed Prion|Buff-breasted Sandpiper|Crested Honey Buzzard|Egyptian Vulture|Franklin’s Gulls|Georg Jacobs|Golden Pipit|Green Warbler|Gull-billed Tern|Madagascan Cuckoos|Northern Royal Albatross|Red-throated Pipits|Sharp-tailed Sandpiper|Sooty Gull|Sooty Tern|Trevor Hardaker|White-cheeked Tern|White-rumped Sandpiper|White-throated Bee-eaters|Yellowthroated Leaf-loves|Zach Simpson

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

Sightings in the subregion

“Midwinter to early spring was uncharacteristically quiet in terms of rarities being reported. This was probably more a reflection of the lack of birder coverage as a result of the various lockdown measures for the Covid-19 pandemic than that there weren’t any good birds around to be found.”

Sightings in the subregion

“In general, late autumn to midwinter is one of the quieter times for rarities and this year it was exacerbated by the Covid-19 lockdown. Fortunately, later in the review period some of the restrictions were relaxed slightly and people could move a bit further afield and also more often, giving the opportunity for a few good birds to be found and reported.”

Sightings in the subregion

“Bridled Tern”|”Common Redshank”|”Lesser Blackbacked Gull”|”Ross’s Turaco”|”Whitethroated Bee-eater”|Black-tailed Godwit|Dick Jacobs|Egyptian Vulture|Eurasian Oystercatchers|Namibia|Red Phalarope|Red-billed Tropicbird|Red-necked Phalaropes|Red-tailed Tropicbird|Rob Leslie|Saunders’s Tern|Sharp-tailed Sandpiper|Trevor Hardaker|Western Marsh Harrier|Yellow-throated Leaflove