Birding Big Year 2024!
Building on the success and camaraderie of the previous Birding Big Year in 2021, our group of intrepid birders, the Londolozi Ranging Team both current and past, has once again …
Building on the success and camaraderie of the previous Birding Big Year in 2021, our group of intrepid birders, the Londolozi Ranging Team both current and past, has once again …
Searching for birds is not necessarily the first thing that comes to mind when planning that first safari to Africa. However, soon after touching down in the wilderness areas of …
Last year a group of us, Londolozi Rangers, past and present, decided to try our hands at something a little different. We decided that we were going to embark on …
Before arriving at Londolozi I knew very little about birds. My previous bush experience usually entailed focusing on all the other animals and especially the Big 5. Whilst I will …
One afternoon I didn’t have any guests so I decided that instead of going out into the bush for a drive I would stay in camp and do a little …
Birding on foot is one of my favourite ways of spending time in nature. Relative to driving around the bush it forces you to take it slow. This affords you …
Birds are not necessarily the first things that spring to mind when one is planning that first safari to Africa. However, soon after arriving here, it becomes obvious that birds …
So it seems like Boris got lost in Mauritania. Well, the evidence isn’t conclusive yet, but the outlook is bleak. His last transmission was from almost a month ago, on …
With the drought – that thankfully we slowly seem to be emerging from – having made for incredible predator-prey interactions, the birding world was sometimes overlooked, but over the course of the last few seasons a …
We ran a post just over a month ago on Birding for Beginners, which looked at some of the more common species you can encounter around camp. Birds aren’t everyone’s cup …
As is understandable, most of our guests arrive with visions of the Big 5 in mind; lions, leopards and elephants are what they anticipate seeing, and hopefully are also what …
What makes this time of year so appealing to so many? Well, a few things are at play. The warm summer temperatures have dropped to a point that in the …
This week’s virtual safari starts off with a little update on the birding big year front as we flash through a number of the birds I have seen, I must …
This week in pictures epitomises summer for me. The bush has never been thicker – and a wash of abundant green fills every nook and cranny, adding a gorgeous bokeh …
Having just returned from leave, I hear over the radio that a seldomly seen female leopard has been seen way down in the deep southern parts of the reserve. More …