Birds

Conservationists are calling on South Africans to become citizen scientists this weekend for the country's first national crane census in two decades. The four-day count aims to…

A total of 160 Cape and African white-backed vultures have a new home at Shamwari Private Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape, where they can heal and breed This content is…

The first group of 155 Cape and African White-backed Vultures will find a new home at Shamwari Private Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape

Halima Beale and Adam Buckham were the big winners of this year’s event

The Cape parrot is an endangered species largely because of human activity such as logging the forests where they are found

The group says what better way to raise awareness about birds and birding than to name birds in South African languages

New app brings the fun to birding with games, challenges and interaction with a friendly online community

With its reedbed wetlands, the marshy plain of the Fens near Cambridge has become an attractive habitat for the bittern, which was, until 2015, on the United Kingdom’s red list…

CapeNature might have to close affected bird reserves if the outbreak becomes too severe

Mass November die-off in KZN is a sign of how global heating is affecting small animals, researchers warn

Controversial Eastern Cape project poses high risks to threatened birds of prey

Secretary birds, martial eagles and bateleurs are now listed as globally endangered

In a single day, temperatures in northern KwaZulu-Natal climbed to a lethal 45°C, causing a mass die-off of birds and bats

Brightness harms people’s and other creatures’ health, disrupts ecosystems and changes climate

Male starlings sang less and were more aggressive towards females that had been given small doses of the antidepressant Fluoxetine