What Bird is This? #27

James Tyrrell August 1, 2020 25

This is a fairly easy one for the initiated. If you haven’t seen this bird before though, you may well be left scratching your head. I remember my first encounter …

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What Bird is This? #26

James Tyrrell June 10, 2020 17

The Wild Dog den (which has now moved; update on this coming soon) has provided not only amazing viewing, but wonderful times to just sit and listen. It was a …

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What Bird is This? #25

James Tyrrell May 9, 2020 24

Today’s bird is a perfect example of how you can easily put the blinkers on when it comes to this pursuit of identifying avian creatures. Driving the northern section of …

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What Bird is This? #23

James Tyrrell March 19, 2020 19

This should be a fairly straightforward one. Colouration, size, shape… there’s certainly enough here to narrow it down to family, but the actual species might take a little more work. …

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What Bird is This? #22

James Tyrrell February 25, 2020 13

Today’s bird stumped a number of staff at the lodge. Answers were fairly varied when I sent the picture around. My suggestion here would be not to jump the gun, …

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What Bird is This? #21

James Tyrrell January 26, 2020 12

We haven’t had one of these in over a month, so figured it was about time. Summer is the breeding season for many of Londolozi’s birds – both resident and …

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Why I’m Envious of a Beetle

James Tyrrell January 25, 2020 10

Yellow-billed hornbills enjoy a rather catholic diet, eating anything from fruits to small mice that they will raid from any nest they happen to discover. They can grab quite large …

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The Dance of the Weavers

James Tyrrell January 2, 2020 8

For a large chunk of the year, Londolozi’s weaver population is drab and fairly nondescript, but when the rain comes and the grass grows, the males shift both their plumage …

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Birdsong: A VERY Brief Human History

Jess Shillaw December 16, 2019 8

I was watching the Ximungwe female recently when the call of a Village Weaver caught my attention. I happen to know this particular call very well because of a village …

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What Bird is This? #20

James Tyrrell December 15, 2019 13

With migrants flooding back in and a ton of resident birds kicking off their breeding season, the birding at Londolozi is absolutely spectacular at the moment. Constant song and colour …

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What Bird is This? #19

James Tyrrell November 14, 2019 11

Summer is here and so are a lot of the migrants. That might be a red herring. Or it might not be. Today’s bird is fairly nondescript, as I’m sure …

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My Top 7 Migrant Birds Returning this Summer

Chris Taylor November 12, 2019 10

From a young age, birding has always grabbed my attention. I fondly remember sitting out on my grandparent’s patio with a set of binoculars gazing out over the garden, identifying …

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Cardinal Woodpecker Nest Discovered

James Tyrrell October 26, 2019 11

Cardinal woodpeckers have a very distinctive call; a “chittering rattle” as described by one of South Africa’s more prominent bird books. It is often heard when out in the bush, …

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What Bird is This #17?

James Tyrrell September 16, 2019 19

Habitat is key when birding. Hint. There’s more than enough in the photo below to take you straight to what family today’s bird belongs to, but from there things start …

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What Happens When the World’s Biggest Bird Gets Thirsty?

Dean De La Rey September 7, 2019 18

The resident ostrich has been spotted a little more in the south-west of the reserve recently and I have had the pleasure of spending some time with her. This has …

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