Stierling’s wren-warbler in South Africa
There is a loud, high-pitched, monotonous warbling sound that is heard throughout the bushveld in the Hoedspruit area in summer, particularly in areas…
Oxpeckers at Satara
Oxpeckers on a weekend at Satara, Kruger National Park On Saturday morning (Dec 4), I crawled out of bed at 3:30 to be early to…
Out of the blocks with a bang…
We’re now 2 months into the year, with a pretty explosive start to the rarities scene. On Birding Big Day on 28 November last year,…
The Rules of Twitching!
Here in Southern Africa, the start of 2021 has been a special twitching season. Over this period a host of good rarities have showed up…
Birding in the southern Drakensberg
Tips to finding the southern Drakensberg specials in the Rhodes, Naude's Neck Pass, Tenahead and TIffendell areas.
Basic evolutionary biology for birders
The video contained in this page was a webinar on Learn-the-Birds in October, 2020. Birds have played a critically important role in the origin of…