This Polemaetus bellicosus sat on a tree in Kruger Park, back in 2010. The species is classified as vulnerable and decreasing in numbers because of shooting, trapping, poisoning, electrocution and habitat loss.
These beautiful Terathopius ecaudatus were doing their morning preening in Kruger Park when I spotted them.
This near-threatened eagle species is in danger because of habitat loss, poisoning, pesticides and trapping for international trade.
Despite its duck-like look, Scopus umbretta is a wading bird. I saw this one a few years ago in Kruger Park.
Many thanks to the birders on http://www.birdforum.net for helping me with the identification of this Centropus burchellii. I saw this one perched on some shrubbery while on a tour through Kruger Park. Fun fact: this bird predates on other birds up to the size of a dove.
A few years ago, we had some time on our hands when we were near Capetown. So we spent a few days in Somerset West and visited the Helderberg Nature Reserve. There, we encountered this Anthobaphes violacea. The species needs fynbos vegetation to survive. So as long as there’s fynbos, there will be sunbirds (hopefully).
A few years ago, during a visit to Kruger Park I saw this Poicephalus cryptoxanthus. Although the species is listed under a conservation status of Least Concern, it ‘is increasingly vulnerable to habitat loss and fragmentation with illegal capture for the bird trade of concern in Mozambique‘ (http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/22685317/0).
Bucorvus leadbeateri as I saw them in Kruger Park a few years ago. The species is the largest of all hornbills. It’s also classified as threatened and close to extinction, mainly because of habitat loss.
We met this female Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis a few years ago in Kruger Park. The species apparently appeared in Egyptian hieroglyphs and might have been the origin of the myth of the Kongamato.
These two Urolestes melanoleucus are also called African long-tailed shrike. I saw them in Kruger National Park, and the tails still amaze me.
Bostrychia hagedash is sometimes also called Hadada Ibis. It has a very distinct haaa-call – hence the name. This one was strolling on a lawn in the Helderberg Reserve near Cape Town.
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