Birding Big Year 2026 – The Catch Up
Okay, I owe you all an apology. I said I would be giving monthly updates, and I have delivered precisely zero since the February update. March, April, May, and most …
Okay, I owe you all an apology. I said I would be giving monthly updates, and I have delivered precisely zero since the February update. March, April, May, and most …
With February now behind us, the “casual” phase of the 2026 Birding Big Year has officially evaporated. The leaderboard has begun to split into three very distinct camps. On one …
It’s the end of January, and the honeymoon phase of the 2026 Birding Big Year is officially over. The initial adrenaline of New Year’s Day has been replaced by the …
It is now the 20th of January. For most, the initial burst of New Year’s energy has started to wane, replaced by the mundane reality of the working year. But …
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 …
“I would love to get into birds”, “It’s something I love but have never really gotten into it”. The famous words of not only people that come on safari but …
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 …