The male Malachite sunbird, during the breeding season, is one of the most magnificent of all the sunbirds within the region, with bright, metallic green plumage, bright yellow pectoral tufts and a long tail...
You don’t have to spend very long in a game reserve or park to realize that it a very treacherous environment for the four-legged, two-legged and even the legless inhabitants. With very few exceptions,...
The Egyptian goose is quite common throughout sub-Saharan Africa, except for the very arid regions and the dense forests, and is found on many rivers, dams and other stretches of open water. Considered to...
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...
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...
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...
The Yellow-fronted canary is a beautiful little bird, about 12 cm in length, which has been quite extensively persecuted by the cage bird brigade (where it is often called a Green singing finch), not...
The Ant-eating chat is endemic to the southern African region and within the region is fairly widespread, although it is absent from most of Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Swaziland in the east and from the...
The Yellow canary is a small bird, approximately 13 cm in length, which is near-endemic to the southern African region. It is fairly common within its preferred habitat, the semi-arid scrubland in the central...
Brown-hooded kingfishers are fairly widespread in Africa, being found as far north as Somalia and as far south as the Cape in South Africa. Within the southern African region its distribution is limited to...
Sociable weavers are small birds with a length of about 14 cm and the sexes are alike in both size and plumage colouration. Their upper parts are scalloped with black and their under parts...
The Bearded woodpecker is the largest of the arboreal woodpeckers found in the southern African region, with a length of about 24 cm. In Africa it is found as far north as the Central...
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