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Africa Birds & Birding strives to foster an awareness and appreciation of the continent’s wild birds, celebrating their considerable diversity and number, while being ever-mindful of the great conservation challenges that they face. The magazine aims to encourage the growth of birdwatching as a pastime for enthusiasts of every level and ability and so increase the number of people who care passionately about our wild birds.

It is published six times a year.

In the Latest Issue:

 


Cover Story

The quest for Green-breasted Pitta

Keith Barnes succumbs to one of his lifelong birding obsessions and heads to Uganda in search of the fabulous but poorly known and elusive Green-breasted Pitta.

 

 

 

Features

Birds on the move

Peter Ryan is a diligent bird atlaser in his home patch on the southern Cape Peninsula. He examines data that reveal how populations are changing as some species lose their specialised habitats and move elsewhere and how the numbers of alien birds are burgeoning.

 

Sokoke Scops-Owl

As few as 800 pairs of Sokoke Scops-Owl remain in their restricted range in Kenyan forests, and numbers are steadily dropping as the species’ habitat is constantly being reduced.


 

Birding out of Africa: Guyana

Guyana is a seductive South American birding destination. It makes an ideal first-time look at the continent, with the very real danger that the visitor will be forever spoilt for the ‘big stuff’ that a pristine tropical rainforest and savanna has to offer.

Africa Birds & Birding

Editorial:
Things happen at speed in the world of birds. Often the action is just a blur to the human eye, leaving the beholder with that rather startled sense of ‘Did I really see what I think I saw?’ It is this rapid playing out of events that lends a very special appeal to action wildlife photography, especially where the skill of the photographer and the technical precision of the best cameras and lenses combine to freeze forever that split second of high drama. Those of you who have had the pleasure of seeing the winners of the 2010 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition will know exactly what I mean. Fergus Gill’s moment of a Fieldfare hovering to pluck berries from a tree won him the Young Photographer of the Year award, but others were even more captivating: a Fish Crow attacking a nonchalant Great Horned Owl in flight; Black-headed Gulls trying unsuccessfully to harass a Puffin into spilling the bounty of sand eels in its bill; and a Goshawk making off with a shrieking gull held vice-like in the talons of one foot. If you haven’t seen the exhibition, it is in Cape Town* for the next while, so if you do happen to be in town, give yourself a treat.

Peter Borchert
Editor: Africa - Birds & Birding

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