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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
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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,
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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
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Birding the Wildest Islands of the Caribbean
Almost invisible on a map of the world, the two tiny islands of Trinidad and Tobago are located at the southern end of the Caribbean,
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The ruff – our non-binary migrant
I love ruffs. Part of the reason for this is that they arrive in Gauteng, South Africa from the northern hemisphere during the chill, dusty
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Birding in the southern Drakensberg
Tips to finding the southern Drakensberg specials in the Rhodes, Naude’s Neck Pass, Tenahead and TIffendell areas.