The South Africa Bird Guide offers a wide range of bird behaviour and birding facts that will interest even the most reluctant student. The actions of a bird in response to environmental situations with differ from species to species, but gives insight into the lives of nature's high-flyers.
From bird monogamy, to feeding, interactions with other birds, catching parasites and decoding why birds sing, the Bird Guide is designed to answers all questions regarding the behavourial patterns of South Africa's birds.
Southern Africa has one of the most diverse ranges of bird species in the world. The different climates, vegetation types, and habitat refle...
As important as a well maintained aircraft is to a pilot, so too are well cared for feathers to a bird...
Birds have to catch food and feed their chicks directly as they have no internal source of nourishment like the mammary glands of mammals....
When a bird wishes to vocalize, it contracts its lungs sending a jet of air through the syrinx and by vibrating the fleshy membranes it cont...
Although the red winged starling, Onychognathus morio, is found mainly in mountainous areas, where its mellow, whistling call is everywhere,...
Because eating seeds are much like eating dry biscuits without any milk, doves are very water dependent and can be found in droves at waterh...
One of the criteria that help ornithologists divide the bird kingdom into different groups is the condition of their young when they hatch. ...
Brood parasites are birds that make use of host parents to brood and rear their young. They do not build nests of their own nor do they play...
Birds of different species of birds, frequently associate in mixed feeding parties and are found together in what is known as a ‘bird part...
In order to survive in the animal kingdom, an individual must find enough food to sustain itself while avoiding danger in the form of predat...
Co-operative breeding is a system employed by many species of birds, and a few mammals, which has developed over evolutionary periods of tim...
Birds have feathers to enable them to fly, another feature virtually unique to them amongst warm-blooded creatures (except bats)....
Symbiosis refers to a protracted relationship between two species, where one of the species may either benefit from the association, be nega...
South Africa is a dry country; its rivers are often stretches of sand rather than of flowing water....