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SA's Niall Perrins is asking for sponsorship as he races across southern Africa looking for 800 species to raise funds for research and conservation on the Vulnerable

One of eleven species of swallow in the genus Petrochelidon (one of which, the Red Sea Cliff Swallow P. perdita, is known from just one dead specimen

One of the more widespread southern hemisphere gulls, the nominate race of the Kelp Gull Larus dominicanus dominicanus occurs along the coasts of South America, New Zealand, Australia

The world's six species of Spoonbills are all large, long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, which also includes the Ibises. All have large, flat, spatulate bills as

I've been trying to find time to post some photos from my recent trip to Cape Town for a while ...and finally here they are. I should back

I'm in Cape Town and thought it was probably about time (having disgracefully ignored them for so long) that I photographed some of the commoner residents that every

Just two weeks ago the various listserves that cover South Africa lit up with correspondents raving about a brand new regional guide covering Gauteng (the bird-rich province that

When I visit Johannesburg, Gauteng (South Africa) one of the birds I most look forward to seeing is the Long-tailed Widowbird Euplectes progne, a member of the Bishop

Even after nearly twenty years of flying international routes, travelling between the northern and southern hemispheres like a (slightly moody it has it be admitted) jet-propelled swallow, I