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...
Within the southern African region the range of the Bare-cheeked babbler is very limited, the birds being found only in the north-west of Namibia. It is a “near-endemic” to the southern African region and...
The Common waxbill is a small bird with a length of about 11 cm. Although it is native to sub-Saharan Africa, it is a popular cage bird and has been introduced into many other...
Some of my best recollections of Rock martins are of a couple of hours spent trying to photograph an adult bird feeding its youngster while the young bird was perched rather precariously on a...
Do you ever have one of those days when you feel quiet and introspective? You look around and see the world differently and think about deeper things than normal. Today is one of those...
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