News: Celebrating World Albatross Day; New Coastal Seabird manager; Meet our new president; Update: the De Hoop penguin colony; Laying a foundation for the future; Vultures and the economics of disease; Welcome back, Bronwyn; Bird club milestones; Giving interns wings

“Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels”|”Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan”|”BirdLife International Marine Programme”|”Critically Endangered”|”International Union for the Conservation of Nature”|”Rand Barbet Bird Club”|ACAP|Adam Naylor|African Penguins|Albatross Task Force|Albert Froneman|Andrea Angel|Andrew Aveley|BirdLife Plettenberg Bay|BirdLife President Ridge|breeding colony|Bronwyn Maree|children|Christina Hagen|Colleen Downs|EAFI|East Atlantic Flyway Initiative|education|Esme Goodwin|Gill Hardingham|Gough Island.|Hiral Naik|IUCN|John Cooper|John Dickens|Kelp Gull|Kristi Garland|learners|Linda van den Heever|Lucky Ngwenya|Mark Anderson|Michelle Risi|Monty Brett|Nolumanyano Camagu|Old World vultures|Pamela Isdell|Plett Bird Club|Reason Nyengera|school|Sherry Knudsen|Shireen Gould|Tegan Carpenter-Kling|Tristan Albatross|Wakkerstroom Centre

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“African Harrier-Hawk”|”Burchell’s Coucal”|”Cape White-eyes”|Cape Sparrows|Cape Weavers|Common Waxbills|doves|Hadeda|House Sparrow|Jennifer Lean|Mick Russell|Mike Staniforth|Noeleen Turner|pigeons|Spotted Eagle-Owl|starlings

Saving SABAP

“South African National Biodiversity Institute”|”Southern African Bird Atlas Project”|biodiversity|bird distribution|BirdLasser|citizen science|data|FitzPatrick Institute|funding|SANBI

Best of birding in Ethiopia

“Banded Barbet”|”Thick-billed Raven”|”White-winged Cliff Chat”|Abijatta-Shalla National Park|Abyssinian Catbird|Abyssinian Slaty Flycatcher|Abyssinian Woodpecker|Ariadne Van Zandbergen|Awash National Park|Bale Mountains National Park|Bishoftu|Blue-winged Goose|Bradt Guide to Ethiopia|flamingos|Hawassa|Jemma Valley|Ken Behrens|Menagesha National Forest|Philip Briggs|Stresemann’s Bush Crow|Yabello|Ziway

Master blaster: 48 hours in the Vumba

“Brimstone Canary”|”Brown-backed Honeybird “|”Dark-capped Yellow Warbler”|”Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon”|”Grey Penduline-tit”|”Miombo tits”|”Olive sunbirds”|”Orange Ground Thrush”|”White-tailed Crested Flycatcher”|”Whitestarred robins “|”Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird”|”Yellowstreaked greenbuls”|African Firefinch|African Goshawk|African Palm Swifts|Ashy Flycatcher|Augur Buzzard|Bar-throated Apalis|bird ring|Black Cuckooshrike|Black-fronted bush-shrikes|Bronzy Sunbird|Buluwesi Murambiwa|Cabanis’s Bunting|Cape Batis|Chirinda Apalis|Cinnamon-breasted tit|Collared Sunbird|Eastern Highlands|Eastern Saw-wings|Green-capped Eremomela|Grey Cuckooshrike|Lazy Cisticola|Miombo Double-collared sunbird|Miombo Rock Thrush|Morgan Trimble|Olive bushshrikes|Red-capped Robin-chat|Red-faced Crombec|Red-throated Twinspot|Scaly-throated Honeyguide|Southern Hyliota`|Streaky-headed Seedeater|Stripe-cheeked Greenbul|Striped-cheeked greenbuls|Swynnerton’s robin|Swynnerton’s robins|White-eared Barbet|White-starred robin|Yellow-bellied Waxbills|Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird|Zimbabwe