What Bird is This? #31

James Tyrrell April 1, 2021 18

It’s been a while since we ran a Bird ID Challenge. Over four months in fact. Now that we are slowly going back into winter and the migrants will be …

Bird ID Challenge Birds

What Bird is This? #30

James Tyrrell November 9, 2020 18

I remember seeing this bird for the first time. I was in the north of the Kruger with one of South Africa’s leading trails guides and top birders, and he …

Bird ID Challenge Birds

What Bird is This? #28

James Tyrrell September 21, 2020 27

This one will surprise you. It’s a photo from a couple of months ago but so much was happening at the time we didn’t make the big thing out of …

Bird ID Challenge Birds

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 …

Bird ID Challenge Birds

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 …

Bird ID Challenge Birds Wildlife

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. …

Bird ID Challenge Birds

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, …

Bird ID Challenge Birds Featured Wildlife

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 …

Bird ID Challenge Birds

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 …

Bird ID Challenge Birds Wildlife

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 …

Bird ID Challenge Birds Featured

What Bird is This? #15

James Tyrrell July 21, 2019 4

A funny looking bird caught our eye recently. Quite scruffy, its plumage wasn’t immediately definitive, and it was only after we’d eliminated a few options that we came to a …

Bird ID Challenge Birds Wildlife

What Bird is This? #14

James Tyrrell June 25, 2019 10

It’s been a little over a month since the last in our Bird Quiz series. Birding doesn’t quite take a back seat during the winter months, but with the migrants …

Bird ID Challenge Birds Wildlife

What Bird is This? #11

James Tyrrell April 14, 2019 10

So, nests… A totally different approach to bird identification. Bird chicks are classified into two relatively distinct groups; precocial and altricial. Precocial chicks are born in a far more advanced …

Bird ID Challenge Birds Wildlife

What Bird is This #10?

James Tyrrell March 25, 2019 4

Our last Mystery Bird Challenge edged us into the realm of the LBJs (Little Brown Jobs), which is scary territory for most aspiring birders (and many competent ones as well). …

Bird ID Challenge Birds Wildlife

Who Am I? A Leopard Doesn’t Change Its Spots…

James Tyrrell February 25, 2019 17

Browsing the archives as I like to do, I recently came across photos of a sighting of a mother leopard and her cub from yesteryear. One of Londolozi’s newer rangers …

Leopards Wildlife

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