Cape Wagtail (Motacilla capensis)
Cover photo by Anthony Archer – BirdPix 188952 Cape Wagtail Identification Cape Wagtails are medium-sized, greyish-brown birds with long tails and a disti...
Author: Bird Feeder Project: Karis Daniel & Megan Loftie-Eaton
The Bird Feeder Project is a BDI citizen science initiative involving school learners and youth eco-clubs. Learners are taught a scientific protocol for doing 10-minute watches and recording the species they see, in the order they see them. The Bird Feeder Project includes an online identification guide to about 30 of the species seen in gardens in Cape Town. Students will learn how to upload their cellphone photos into the BirdPix section of the Virtual Museum, where they will be curated for posterity. The 10-minute watches will rapidly grow into a valuable monitoring database. Karis Daniel is the Project Coordinator and put together the identification guide, Megan Loftie-Eaton helped with the species texts.
Fiscal Flycatcher (Melaenornis silens)
Cover image of Fiscal Flycatcher by Michael Brooks – Citrusdal, Western Cape – BirdPix 4619 Fiscal Flycatcher Identification The Fiscal Flycatcher i...
House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
Cover image by Gregg Darling – St Francis Bay – Eastern Cape – BirdPix 10073 House Sparrow Identification Females and young House Sparrows are...
Red-faced Mousebird (Urocolius indicus)
Cover image by J. Jordaan – Addo Elephant National Park – BirdPix 31413 Red-faced Mousebird Identification The Red-faced Mousebird has a slaty-grey ...
White-backed Mousebird (Colius colius)
Cover image: White-backed Mousebird by Ryan Tippett – BirdPix 103558 White-backed Mousebird Identification The White-backed Mousebird has a grey head, pro...
Olive Thrush (Turdus olivaceus)
Cover image: Olive Thrush by Gregg Darling – BirdPix 28166 Olive Thrush Identification The Olive Thrush has a dark grey head, back, and tail, an orange be...
Swee Waxbill (Coccopygia melanotis)
Identification The Swee Waxbill is 9–10 cm long with a grey head and breast, pale yellow-grey belly, olive back and wings, red lower back and rump, and a black ...
Southern Grey-headed Sparrow (Passer diffusus)
Cover image by Gregg Darling – BirdPix 20396 Identification As its name suggests the Grey-headed Sparrow has a grey head and face with pale grey underpart...
Pied Crow (Corvus albus)
Cover image: Pied Crow by Trevor Hardaker – BirdPix 16860 Identification The Pied Crow is an unmistakable, vocal and conspicuous species, unlikely to be o...
Speckled Pigeon (Columba guinea)
Cover image. Speckled Pigeon by Gregg Darling – BirdPix 46904 Identification This is a large pigeon at 41 cm in length. Its back and wings are reddish-bro...