Shell shock
Aquila verreauxii|Braeme Holland|Langebaan|Verreaux’s Eagles
Inbox: Mission impossible; Battleground; Done and Run; Praise indeed
Black Sparrowhawk|Bokmakierie|cats|congratulations|COVID-19|Cuckoo Finch|Doug Charlton|Fan-tailed Grassbird|Karoo Thrush|Lesser Seedcracker|letters|Lockdown|Peter Rosewarn|Peter Steyn|praise|Pyrenestes minor|raptor|Shortwinged Cisticola|Stefan Heydenreich
The magic beaks of Stone birds; What’s in a name; On the shelf; New edition Gamebirds of Africa; Observations: Nest hygiene; Courtship feeding
A new study from the University of Cape Town has shown that fossil
relatives of ostriches and emus had a remarkable foraging ecology that
was more like that of the Hadeda Ibis than their giant flightless living
relatives. What is even more fascinating is that they may have inherited
this unique ‘sixth sense’ from their non-avian dinosaur relatives.
Dead heat
African fruit bats|Andrew McKechnie|Blue Waxbills|Carnaby’s Black Cockatoos|endangered|FitzPatrick Institute|Fork-tailed Drongos|Green-winged Pytilias|Grey Tit-Flycatcher|heatwave|Hot Birds Research Project|Magpie Shrikes|Manyoni Private Game Reserve|mortality|Phongolo Nature Reserve|Susan Cunningham|Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bats|Willow Warbler|Yellow-fronted Canaries
Sightings in the subregion
Sooty Gull
Owl house
Halima Beale|nest|photography|Spotted Eagle-Owl
“A finger on the pulse of penguins; Protecting Blue Swallows and Cape Parrots; Invisible highways of the skys; Getting involved: A role for locals in conserving Ethiopia’s Berga wetland; New horizons in White-winged Flufftail research”
“Adélie Penguins”|”African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbird Agreement”|”Critically Endangered”|”Hanneline Smit-Robinson”|”Melissa Howes-Whitecross”|”South African Environmental Observation Network”|AEWA|African Penguins|Alistair McInnes|Barn Swallow|BirdLasser|Blue Economy|Blue Swallow|Brent Coverdale|Bronwyn Maree|Cape Cormorant|Cape Gannet|Cape Parrot|COVID-19|East Atlantic Flyway|European Roller|GPS|Kyle Lloyd|Learn about birds|Little Penguin|Lockdown|Mark Anderson|Nelson Mandela University|Robin Colyn|SABAP|SAEON|SANCCOB|Secretarybird|Southern Ground-Hornbill|Steve McKean|White-winged Flufftail
“Garden birds: The long and the short of it: Abnormal weaver nest attachments; Bush-shrike diaries”
“Black-headed Oriole”|African Paradise Flycatcher|Cape Batis|Dieter Oschadleus|Izabella Gates|Olive bushshrikes|Richard du Toit|Southern masked weaver|Wesley Gush
Do not disturb: The stealth factor in photographing birds
Grant Atkinson|Mangrove Kingfisher|photographer|photography|Rufous-tailed Weaver|Trumpeter Hornbill
And breathe…Rocherpan Nature Reserve
“After the pandemic’s catastrophic impact on travel and finances, everyone has been constrained to
look closer to home for their much-needed breakaways. Fortunately for South Africa’s birders, there
are several local spots that are easily accessible, affordable and well worth a visit. One such oasis is
Rocherpan Nature Reserve on the Cape’s West Coast. Managed by CapeNature, the reserve is
25 kilometres north of Velddrif and just two hours’ drive from Cape Town.”