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Flies low over rocks and sand as to blend in
Common resident throughout eastern areas of Southern Africa
Chiken sized bird, having dark grey body flecked with white. Destinctive blue ...
I love the Thornveld of South Africa, and ...
Blue upper tail and forehead, purple sides of head, red beak. The male has a ...
Easily identified by broad,pale eyebrow stripe and its lilac-brown underparts ...
An ash-grey bird, about pigeon sized with a long tail and conspicous crest.
The tail shows a small indentation at the tip, the outer tail-feathers being ...
No dark ear patches, underpants uniformly blue-green. Peacock-blue or green. ...
Spotted underpants. Red crown and malar streak(male), brown facial and ...
almost identical but have differing habitats, Rattling preferring
Fiscal feeding its young!
This bird was spotted in Kruger National Park, South Africa.
Fall in love at first sight 1. shy shy (male has a red cap) 2. Male working 3. ...
Transvaal and the eastern Cape. This mousebird prefers scrubby dry habitats, ...
A medium sized Hornbill with yellow-orange to chrome yellow bill with black ...
It ranges from 17 to 19 cm (6.7 to 7.5 in.) in length and is characterized by a ...
robust weaver, brown above, cream below with conspicuous white eye brows and a ...
. Status and biology: Common near-endemic resident in
This red-billed hornbill was spotted at sunrise near the west entrance to ...
About 50cm in length, black-and-white bird wit an imposing massif orange bill.
Distinguished from other red-billed kingfishers by its brownish head streaked ...
a small owl with a rounded head and no ear tufts and a relatively long tail (18 ...
further. There is another population centre in the KZN
Common Fiscal Feeding its Young!
The bateleur (Terathopius ecaudatus) is a medium-sized eagle in the family ...
This bird is about 34 cm (13 inches) long, with the tail comprising ...
Normally the adult has pure white underparts contrasting with brown upperparts. ...
The average adult is 55 to 70 cm (22 to 28 in) long with a 186 cm (6 ft 1 in) ...
My third spotting of Namaqua sandgrouse in Namibia (and in life, too), and ...
The Cape sparrow or mossie (Passer melanurus) is a bird of the sparrow family ...
The Cape sparrow is a bird of the sparrow family Passeridae found in southern ...