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...
I started my Big Five blogs with articles about leopards and buffalo. Today is the turn of the mighty lion – one of the most impressive animals in Africa. We’ve been fortunate enough to...
I started my five part series of articles on The Big Five by chatting about the leopard. The second one on my list is the most dangerous of them all – the African Cape...
Anyone who has been to (or done research on) the game reserves in central and southern Africa will be familiar with the term “the Big Five”, which relates to leopards, lions, elephants, rhinoceros and...
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...
Rob and I celebrated our wedding anniversary this year by visiting the Etosha National Park in Namibia. February isn’t the best time of the year to visit the park as it’s right in the...
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...
Being a great lover of elephants and also having close ties to KwaZulu Natal in South Africa, I was saddened to read recently of the death of conservationist Lawrence Anthony, the author of “The...
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...
We were fortunate enough to spend last weekend on the farm Vendetta about 150 kms south east of Windhoek. This was our fourth visit to this amazing farm and as usual game and farm...
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...
The Hartlaub’s gull is a fairly small gull, with a length of approximately 36 cm. It is endemic to the west coast of South Africa and Namibia, and the islands that lie off that...
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