The White-browed scrub-robin, like many of the robins, is often heard and rather less often seen. The males and females are alike in both size and plumage coloration and it is of fairly average...
Photographing birds is a rewarding pastime. Rewarding but also incredibly frustrating. Birds seem to be able to sense when you are about to take a photograph and duck behind a convenient branch or take...
Although grouped into the larger family that includes the Starlings and Mynas, oxpeckers are really rather different and have adapted well to their unusual feeding arrangements. They have strong feet with sharp claws and...
Picture this … Two tourists climb into a boat with a guide and as they glide upstream the guide tells them that if they are confronted by an aggressive hippopotamus they mustn’t even think...
The first indication that you will get that a Black cuckoo is in the neighborhood is likely to be the mournful call “I’m so siiiiiiick” repeated often enough to convince you that there is...
I’ve just finished reading the delightful little story “The Elephant’s Child” by Rudyard Kipling (Just So stories) in which he described how the elephant got its trunk. A curious little elephant went on a...
The Green-backed heron is one of the smaller of the many herons found within the southern African region, being approximately 41 cm in length. The males and females are similar in both size and...
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