Zululand zenith

“African Dusky flycatchers”|”African Green Pigeons”|”African Stonechats”|”Black-bellied Glossy Starlings”|”Brimstone Canary”|”Bushveld Pipit”|”Crested Guineafowl”|”Dark Chanting Goshawks”|”Hooded Vultures”|”Hottentot Teal “|”Lesser Striped Swallows”|”Red-crested Bustard”|”Whiteeared Barbets”|accipiter|Adam Riley|African Cuckoo Hawk|Bateleur|Bennett’s Woodpeckers|BirdLasser Lockdown Challenge|Black Cuckooshrike|Black-rumped Buttonquail|Blue-mantled Crested Flycatchers|Cape Batises|Cape Rock Thrush|Common Buttonquails|Common Buzzard|COVID-19|Crowned Eagle|Dark-capped Bulbul|Diederik cuckoos|Eastern Nicator|ecotourism|Fiscal flycatchers|Gorgeous Bushshrike|Great White Pelican|Grey Waxbills|Jackal Buzzards|Klaas’s cuckoos|Lockdown|Magpie Shrike|Martial Eagle|Mocking Cliff Chat|Neergaard’s Sunbird|Ovambo|Pink-throated Twinspots|Plain-backed Pipit|Quailfinches|Red-headed Weaver|Rock Kestrel|Shelley’s Francolin|Striped Pipit|Trumpeter Hornbills|Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl|Violet-backed Starling|Wattled Starlings|Woodland Kingfisher

A world leader in key biodiversity areas

“Convention on Biological Diversity”|”Critically Endangered”|”Global Biodiversity Framework”|”International Union for Conservation of Nature”|”KBA National Coordination Group”|”Regional Conservation Programme”|”World Wide Fund for Nature”|Albert Froneman|Birdlife International|Daniel Marnewick|DreamPix Photography|Flower Valley Conservat ion Trust|IUCN|Red Data|SANBI|Wildlife Conservation Society|WWF|WWF Nedbank Green Trust

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

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.”

Big brother is watching

André Ferreira|animal population|Annie Basson|artificial intelligence|bird rings|FitzPatrick Institute|FitzPatrick Report|Franck Theron|Liliana Silva|long-term study|passive integrated transponder|Peter Scott|PIT tags|radio-frequency identification|RFID|Rita Covas

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