David George Allan: Gill Memorial Medal Award citation; No longer forgotten: Saul Sithole 1908–1997; City slickers: Urban birds in Ostrich; Raising Rockjumpers: Bird of the Year 2021, Cape Rockjumper; Guides in the grasslands; South Africa Listers’ Club: Protect while ticking; Jeanette joins the team; Flock to Marion 2022

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Alan Lee|Andrew De Blocq|Austin Roberts|Cape Floristic Region|coronavirus|David Allan|Ditsong Museum|eggs|Egyptian Goose|Emil von Maltitz|fledging|Gill Memorial|incubate|Krista Oswald|Lorato Trok|Mark Anderson|Martin Taylor|nest|Petra Sumasgutner|Red-winged Starlings|Rednecked Spurfowl|sugarbird|sunbird|Transvaal Museum|Wakkerstroom

News: Gritty reality; Working mothers; Helping hands; Shore leave; Sunbird service providers; Long-distance visitor

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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

Sightings in the subregion

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“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

It’s a calling

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Warwick Tarboton is a true naturalist and respected as one of the country’s foremost natural history authors
and bird photographers. There is little doubt that he has influenced many people to take their interest in
birds in particular to the next level.