For this blog post we’ll be looking at Owls, and more specifically the owls of Kruger. If taxonomy is your thing, you’ll know then that we are actually dealing with two Families here – Strigidae, or ‘true or typical Owls’; and Tytonidae, the Barn Owls, though the differences are mainly internal. Kruger has 11 of the 12 Owls occurring in Southern Africa (the only one that isn’t present is Cape Eagle Owl)....
Global Birding Weekend 17 / 18 October 2020.
Posted by Leon on Fri October 30, 2020.
Lawson's are proud to have participated in Global Bird Weekend 2020!
Lawson's were proud to have participated in the recent Global Birding Weekend, set up by our friend from Rutland, Tim Appleton. We managed to get a great team together, representing 9 different countries - South Africa, Australia, Portugal, Switzerland, Germany, the UK, Malawi, India and Sri Lanka. And, on the #OctoberBigDay, Saturday the 17th, we managed to list a whopping 655 species! The global event was a staggering success, with a total of 7100 species recorded on one day - a new World Record! The overall aim of the event was to raise awareness and funding to fight against the illegal trade in birds, and we were proud to have been part of it. Thanks Tim, the Global Birding Weekend team and the LawsonsTeam members for a wonderful event. The gallery shows images of some of the birds seen by Leon Marais in and around Nelspruit.
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South Africa offers some of the best birding on the continent. While it may not have the most number of species, it does have the most endemics. South Africa has 18 birds that are only found within her borders, but that figure jumps to 38 endemics and 30 near-endemics if you include Lesotho and eSwatini, two small nations within South Africa. In this Blog Post we look at 10 of the Best...
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