BirdLife Zimbabwe
BirdLife Zimbabwe has a focus on birds, as the name suggests, but birds are just a part of the exceedingly complex…
Common birds of Zimbabwe
BirdLife Zimbabwe has a focus on birds, as the name suggests, but birds are just a part of the exceedingly complex…
by Derek & Sarah Solomon While birds are everywhere, they will only set up home in an area that is…
This post falls into two sections: The text and graphics of a BirdLife Zimbabwe presentation given by Peter Makhusa entitled "Where…
Harriers are large rather slender raptors (the body about 50cm long with a wingspan of over a metre) with long and…
This episode gives examples of three raptors that have the standard English name of "Buzzard". The bad news, however, is that…
Most of the birds we will be looking at in this series are members of the family of birds known as acciptridae (from…
Raptors are among the biggest and most easily spotted birds in our countryside. They are also perhaps the most dramatic and exciting. The…
Apalis thoracica (apalis = soft [Greek], thoracica = of the chest [Latin] Call (duet by male and female) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmFWxXq9Ygs This is the only Apalis in the…
(a.k.a. Yellow-throated Sparrow) Petronia superciliaris (Genus: petronia, Latin = to do with rocks, referring to the habitat of the Rock Sparrow Petronia petronia; species: superciliaris, Latin:…
Euplectes macroura (Genus: Euplectes, Greek = woven, referring to the nests; Species: macroura, Latin = large-tailed)Euplecte a dos d'or (French); Viuva-de-manto-amarelo (Portuguese) Call/song: http://www.xeno-canto.org/309964 Zimbabwe seems…