Flowers and feathers: Vanrhynsdorp : 4 to 7 August 2024
We visited Botuin Cottages between 4 and 7 August to enjoy the spring flowers and do some birding and ringing. Flowers and feathers. It was also a test run to e...
Tag: Bird ringing
Open Day for bird ringing : Grotto Bay 31 August 2024
The BDI is holding an Open Day for bird ringing on Saturday, 31 August 2024. We are hosted by the Grotto Bay Private Nature Reserve. The reserve has an area of ...
Bird ringing course at New Holme, Hanover, 9 to 15 September 2024
One of the privileges of being a bird ringer is the opportunity to see birds up close. The opportunity to see the detail of the feathers, the colour of the eye,...
Bird ringing at Botuin : 2 to 5 June 2024
A group of BDI people went bird ringing at Botuin, Vanrhynsdorp, from Sunday 2 June to Wednesday 5 June. The aim was to keep a consistent pattern of ringing goi...
Bird ringing course at Ouberg Private Nature Reserve: 1 to 7 May 2024
The BDI hosted the eighth bird ringing course from 1 to 7 May, this time at Ouberg Private Nature Reserve in the Klein Karoo, north of Montagu. This was the fir...
Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
Cover image: Ruddy Turnstone by John and Anne Todd, 9 April, at St Helena Bay in the Western Cape, South Africa. Most of the turnstones in this photograph are a...
Bird Ringing Course at Botuin, Vanrhynsdorp: 31 January to 6 February 2024
This was the seventh BDI bird ringing course. You get links to the previous courses and other bird ringing events here. Although we had some extremely hot (over...
BDInsight – November 2023
Ringing News Bird ringing remains one of the most important research methods for discovering some of the most important basic information about each species. Co...
Bird ringing at Vondeling, 17 to 20 August 2023
Two weeks after our previous bird ringing visit, we were again at Vondeling Wine Farm. This time we focused on species diversity. We caught 26 species in four d...
BDI bird ringing courses and events : links to reports
This is a list of bird ringing courses and other ringing events with reports on the BDI website. The most recent event is at the top, and we work backwards to f...