Learn-the-Birds brings together people keen to learn more about birds, birding and bird photography and people who have knowledge and expertise in these areas. We are new on the scene, having gone live on August 6th 2020. We are creating some interesting webinars, master classes, courses, news, blog posts and other content for you. We have started our webinar and master class programme, with several already having taken place or ready for registration.
We run regular webinars for the birding community. Our webinars are, and always will be free for anyone to attend.
In our master classes, you will get to interact with someone sharing their expertise at an in-depth level, sometimes in multi-session classes.
Video courses enable you to study a birding topic at your leisure. Most comprise recorded videos, and learning activities
Audio downloads provide short snippets of birding information from experts, for example what is happening now, or how to find an unusual bird.
Blogs and news from the world of birds, birding, and bird photography provided by knowledgeable and experienced birders
A variety of learning materials to help you further explore your birding and bird photography hobbies.
Please note that if you register for Learn-the-Birds, and login whenever you visit, registering for our events is a lot simpler.
Please note that all free webinars should be registered for at least an hour before the scheduled start
in order to ensure that you receive the link in time.
When you get into bird photography, you soon realise that you need to process your photos, and having just spent a small fortune on camera
A world-wide count of Waders / Shorebirds is happening Saturday 31st October 00h00(SAT) to Sunday 1st November 23h59 (SAT) 2020
Lynette Rudman talks about her journey into becoming an educational bird video Youtube contributor. Discover what made her follow this path.
The unmistakeable, loud deed-deed-deed-deed-er-ick call of the diederik cuckoo, Chrysococcyx caprius, is a characteristic of the spring and summer landscape of southern Africa. The species
On the weekend of Aug 22, 2020, when we were finally allowed to travel between provinces, I was lucky enough to spend two mornings observing Long-billed Pipits at Marakele National Park.
When I first saw the Orange River White-eye a couple of months ago, it got me thinking about the group, and having seen white-eyes in
In March of 2017 I was leading a birding tour to Southern Mozambique. On 3 March, while searching for the Green Tinkerbird some 30km inland
Way back in 1986, when I was leaving New Brunswick, Canada to go spend two years in Zimbabwe, my friend Anne Bardou gave me a
Our current courses will list here soon. We are working as fast as we can to get them up and available for you to enjoy. The 'courses' shown below are just shells for testing purposes, not real courses, but stay tuned.
This is not a real course, it’s purpose is to test the system and make sure that everything is working. While we build the system, we will be using this course to test features. If you wish to, you are more than welcome to pop in here and see what we are up to.
This is not a real course, it’s purpose is to test the system and make sure that everything is working. We will be posting courses in a month or two. Right now we are concentrating on webinars and master classes.
Our Webinars and Courses are designed to help you enhance your birding experience. They can help you plan a trip, improve your identification skills, or take better photographs. We also cover topics such as ecology and evolution of birds.