Bird ringing at Grotto Bay, 27 May 2023
The Biodiversity and Development Institute (BDI) hosted a Citizen Science Day on Saturday, 27 May 2023, with a focus on bird ringing at Grotto Bay Private Natur...
Category: Birding
Ant-eating Chat (Myrmecocichla formicivora)
Cover image of Ant-eating Chat by Desire Darling – Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape – BirdPix No. 7088 Identification The Ant-eating Cha...
Familiar Chat (Oenanthe familiaris)
Cover image of Familiar Chat by Ryan Tippett – Near Carnarvon, Northern Cape – BirdPix No. 253536 Identification The Familiar Chat is a small and...
Bird ringing course at Ouberg Private Nature Reserve, 10 to 16 May 2023
A cold and sometimes wet Karoo week was not the best for a ringing course, yet everyone thoroughly enjoyed the course! We caught 219 birds of 29 species at the ...
African Sacred Ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus)
Cover image: African Sacred Ibis by Malcolm Robinson– Darvill Bird Sanctuary, KwaZulu-Natal – BirdPix No. 249235 Identification The African Sacred Ibi...
Short-toed Rock-thrush (Monticola brevipes)
Cover image of Short-toed Rock-thrush by PR Kleiman – Near Riemvasmaak, Northern Cape – BirdPix No. 245207 Identification The Short-toed Rock-thr...
Greater Striped Swallow (Cecropis cucullata)
Cover image of Greater Striped Swallow by Cobus Elstadt – Near Uniondale, Western Cape – BirdPix No. 256513 Identification The Greater Striped Sw...
Kelp Gull (Larus dominicanus)
Identification Deciding that the bird you are looking at is an adult Kelp Gull is one of the easiest identification challenges: white head and body, black back ...
Cinnamon-breasted Warbler (Euryptila subcinnamomea)
Cover image by Ryan Tippett – Carnarvon District, Northern Cape – BirdPix No. 97078 Cinnamon-breasted Warbler Identification The Cinnamon-breaste...
The value of bird ringing to research and conservation
What do we learn from bird ringing? The first, quick and obvious answer is that ringing helps us understand movement patterns of birds. The more subtle answer i...