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Unusual decorations on a Collared Sunbird Anthreptes collaris nest at Tala Game Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal
Get PDFDuring December 2010 I observed a nest with the usual collection of decorations but also including a snake skin woven intricately throughout
Unusual egg coloration in Three-banded Plover Charadrius tricollaris
Get PDFThe eggs were very unusual for Three-banded Plover as the pale background which is normally greyish and also the two distinct rings of darker markings are missing. These eggs are more whitish with brown flecks and markings
Possible predation of a Pygmy Falcon by a Tawny Eagle in Namibia
Get PDFOn 8 August 2010, approximately 2km east-southeast of Okaukuejo Camp, Etosha National Park, Namibia, my tour group and I an adult Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax with a prey item. The prey item was clearly a fairly small, very pale bird that we assumed was a Cape Turtle-Dove Streptopelia capensis. We photographed the eagle and its prey item; when we examined the photos later we realized that the prey item was not a Cape Turtle-Dove as expected, but a Pygmy Falcon Polihierax semitorquatus
Remarkable sightings in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park for the first quarter of 2011
Get PDFThis paper serves to document interesting bird sightings in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park that my colleagues and I pleasure of witnessing in the first quarter of 2011
Unusual foraging behaviour of a White-fronted Plover Charadrius marginatus
Get PDFAlthough foraging of plovers is usually considered to be a stereotypical /"run-stop-peck" activity (Urban 1986), various other forms of obtaining prey have been recorded. These include probing (Piersma 1996), hawking (Urban 1986) and foot-trembling (Steyn 1966)
Seventh International Penguin Conference, Boston, USA: Abstracts of presentations on the African Penguin or by researchers based in Africa
Get PDFThere were 73 oral presentations and 50 posters. The full set of conference abstracts is available on the conference website: http://www.penguinconference.org/. The abstracts presented below are those which dealt with the African Penguin, and also includes those on other species presented by researchers with African addresses. The objective of this paper is to make these papers more readily accessible to a southern African audience. The presentations are listed alphabetically by first author in two groups, oral presentations and poster presentations
Saddle-billed Storks in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa
Get PDFDuring a recent visit to the South African sector of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, we observed two Saddle-billed Storks feeding in the vicinity of Kwang Pan, approximately 23 km north of the Nossob rest camp
Contributions of the KwaZulu-Natal Ornithological Trust (now BirdLife South Africa Trust) to bird research and capacity development
Get PDFPrivate individuals are often encouraged to make donations, either as voluntary amounts or bequests, to various conservation initiatives or organisations. Rarely are they given feedback about how the monies were spent or what contribution they made, partic research output and capacity development. One such organisation that has received monies is the KwaZulu-Natal Ornithological Trust (now BirdLife South Africa Trust). Consequently the contribution that it has made was assessed from 1996 to 2009
Establishment of a resident pair of Scaly-feathered Finch in the Makuleke Contract Park, Northern Kruger National Park
Get PDFOver a period of 15 months Scaly-feathered Finch squamifrons sightings were recording on a monthly bird monitoring data sheet, based on guide sightings for that month. Nesting and breeding behaviour was documented over this period recorded in which months observations were made. This is the first documentation of Scaly-feathered Finch breeding and residing in the Makuleke Contract Park, Northern Kruger National Park
The seasonality of the Amethyst Sunbird in Groenkloof, Pretoria
Get PDFAll of the available information on the seasonal movements of the Amethyst Sunbird Chalcomitra amethystina in South Africa can be summed up by saying: "We think there are some seasonal movements but we know nothing about them". For example (1997) wrote of this species: "As with other sunbirds, it may migratory to nomadic within its range," and a decade later he summarized the movements and migration of the species as "Sedentary, nomadic and locally migratory" (Tree 2007)