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FAQ on Africa's Birds
Africa Bird Guide Information: The Kruger National Park is home to most of South Africa's raptors. Vultures occur most in central grasslands, while eagles prefer mixed woodlands along drainage lines...
Taita Falcon
Africa Bird Guide Information: The Taita falcon (Falco fasciinucha) is a small raptor with a banded nape. It was first identified in Kenya and is similar to the Peregrine falcon but smaller in size. The two birds often...
Ostrich
Africa Bird Guide Information: The ostrich (struthio camelus) is a member of a group of birds known as ratites, that is they are flightless birds without a keel to their breastbone...
Guano birds
Africa Bird Guide Information: Historically most southern African guano has been produced by three species, the Jackass Penguin, the Cape Gannet, and the Cape Cormorant. All three breed only on the coast of southern Africa, and nowhere else in the world. ...
White Fronted Plover
Africa Bird Guide Information: The White-fronted Plover male has a more conspicuous black line behind eye and usually small dark patches on sides of breast. The birds from the western Cape are white below...
Whitebreasted Cormorant
Africa Bird Guide Information: Identified by large size and white underparts, throat to breast or, in immatures, entirely white underparts, much whiter than the immature of the Reed Cormorant. ...
Turnstone
Africa Bird Guide Information: In summer plumage the head and neck of the Turnstone bird attain a black-and-white pattern, the scapulars and wing-coverts a bright chestnut...
Swift Tern
Africa Bird Guide Information: Swift Tern is a large Tern, with large, slightly curved, yellow bill. Forehead strip, sides of face, neck and underparts white. Black legs and feet with yellow sole...
Sandwich Tern
Africa Bird Guide Information: Sandwich Tern is much larger than Common Tern, its back paler than other similar-sized Terns. Differs from Gullbilled Tern in a much slimmer appearance and long thin bill, black with a yellow tip. ...
Sanderling
Africa Bird Guide Information: Sanderlings have a rather drab colouring, mainly white in appearance but with pale grey on crown and upper parts. Bill and legs are black. Short heavy bill, has no hind toe, leaving three...
Kelp Gull
Africa Bird Guide Information: The adult Kelp Gull, also known as Southern Blackbacked Gull has dark eyes and whitish-yellow feet...
Greyheaded Gull
Africa Bird Guide Information: Adults have all-grey hood, pale yellow eyes and bright red bills and legs. When non-breeding, the head is white. ...
Grey Plover
Africa Bird Guide Information: The size, high forehead, short bill and long legs, distinguishes this Plover from other waders. In summer plumage the underparts from the chin to lower belly are totally...
Damara Tern
Africa Bird Guide Information: Small size and all-black cap diagnostic of breeding plumage; at other times differs from Little Tern in longer, slightly downturned bill and paler grey back, the body shape dumpier; at long range appears almost white. Non-breeding birds have white for ...
Curlew
Africa Bird Guide Information: Males are smaller than females. Upper parts mottled black and light chestnut; neck, chest and breast buff streaked with chestnut and dusky, rump and underparts white. Eyes brown, bill greyish, horn extremely long and downward curved, usually lighter a ...
Crowned Cormorant
Africa Bird Guide Information: A marine version of the Reed Cormorant and recognised by its overall blacker appearance, permanent crest all year and shorter tail. ...
Common Tern
Africa Bird Guide Information: The bill is 1½ times the distance between back of eye and front of forehead, the bill is red with black tip but shows more black in non-breeding conditions. Eyes are dark brown. The crown is usually a mottled black with sooty black over eye and on the ...
Caspian Tern
Africa Bird Guide Information: Largest tern in our region. Massive red bill and overall size render this tern unmistakable. ...
Cape Wagtail
Africa Bird Guide Information: This common bird is unmistakable with its grey-brown upperparts, dark band across chest and white outer tail-feathers. No white on secondaries. ...
Cape Gannet
Africa Bird Guide Information: Unmistakable, large black and white seabird with yellow head and hind neck, at close range with distinctive black lines on bill and face, plus a long black line down centre of throat. The Cape Gannet is a large white marine bird with long wings, compl ...
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