Midrand marvel
Gauteng birders don’t need to travel far to get their
feathery fix. Midway between Johannesburg and Pretoria, Glen Austin Pan has become a favourite patch for this returnee expat.
News: Gritty reality; Working mothers; Helping hands; Shore leave; Sunbird service providers; Long-distance visitor
Andile Mdluli|Ardenna tenuirostris|Bethany Clark|Birdlife International|Cape Cormorant|chicks|CSIRO|Department of Forestry|DFFE|Fisheries and the Environment|GPS tracking|Kelp Gull|Lauren Roman|mass mortality|migrating seabirds|Morus bassanus|Northern Gannets|plastic|pumice|Robben Island|Sacred Ibis|SANCCOB|Scott Bryan|Short-tailed Shearwaters|Stephen Votier|Two Oceans Aquarium
Littorally speaking: the shorebirds of Hermanus
“African Oystercatcher”|”Black-headed herons”|”Blacksmith Lapwing”|”Common Starlings”|”Grey-headed Gulls”|”Peregrine Falcons”|”Speckled Pigeons”|”White-fronted Plover”|African Penguin|Barn Swallow|Black-crowned Night Heron|Brown Skua|Cape Gannets|Cape Robin-chat|Cape Wagtail|Cape Weaver|Common Greenshank|Cormorants|Duncan Butchart|Egyptian Goose|Elegant Tern|George Branch|Giant Kingfishers|Greater Striped Swallows|Hadeda|Hartlaub’s Gull|Kelp Gull|Little Egret|Living shores|Malachite Kingfisher|Numenius|Parasitic Jaeger|Pied Kingfisher|Red-winged Starlings|Rock Martins|Sacred Ibis|Sandwich terns|Spotted Eagle-Owl|Swift Tern|Whimbrels|White-breasted Cormorant|Yellow-billed Ducks
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