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Bateleur sunbathing at Punda Maria
Get PDFThe drinking routine was methodical and slow, taking up to 10 minutes in all and made up of several dips followed by a long pause after each dip..
Breeding Chestnut-banded Plovers Charadrius pallidus at Leeupan, Mpumalanga
Get PDFThe male was very skittish and flew back to the shoreline after a short while, without covering the eggs. Both the male and female were subsequently see
Nasty neighborhood: kleptoparasitism and a egg predation of Swift Terns by Hartlaub's Gulls
No full textevents of interspecific kleptoparasitism on either adults flying back with fish in their bill and/or many attempts to kleptoparasitise small chicks that had just been fe
Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill breeding in electricity pole
Get PDFDuring this period the male waited patiently with a berry in its beak ...it flew straight to the nest to deliver the berry
First record of a Lesser Moorhen in the Free State Province, South Africa
Get PDFI spotted a waterfowl not looking familiar just 4m from the car... a lifer for both myself and Janine
Sun-bathing by Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus on its African wintering grounds
No full textshortly after landing on the shore, walked away from the water and spread its wings and tail in unusual manner... Similarly, researchers extremely experienced with this species...could not recall observing similar behaviour on the species breeding grounds..
First observations of Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus on Robben Island
Get PDFThe species most recently added to the Robben Island birdlist was the Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta (Sherley and Robinson 2012). This short note adds a closely related species to this birdlist, the Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
Raider of the Baglafecht Weaver nest: Vervet Monkey
Get PDFHe jumped out of the tree and went to another tree where he sat and started ripping the nest apart
Living on the edge: Sooty Albatross chick killed by a Northern Giant Petrel
Get PDFI report how a Northern Giant Petrel killed a Dark-mantled Sooty Albatross chick ... on Marion Islan
Why should an eagle mob a leopard?
Get PDFOn 1 August 2012 whilst observing a pair of Verreaux's Eagles Aquila verreauxii in the Cederberg Mountains I noted an unusually short and repetitive dive being performed at first by one of the pair of eagles