Limpopo Birding Routes

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Limpopo Birding Routes is a non-profit organisation promoting birding tourism, conservation, research, environmental education, and birder-friendly establish...

05/12/2020

Episode 36 of The Birding Life Podcast proudly sponsored by Outliers Coffee Roasters

The Birding Life Show December 2020. We have chat about a whole range of subjects – youth birding, apps and websites that will help you birding journey, we chat about a few pairs of binoculars that you could consider and a whole lot more.

Listen via your favourite podcast app or head on over to https://www.thebirdinglife.com/podcast

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05/12/2020

The nineteenth prize in our giveaway is a one year premium subscription to Bird Journal worth more than R600 . Enjoy a smooth, intuitive recording experience for birds and wildlife with Bird Journal. Available on all the devices you use.

To enter do the following four steps:
1) Follow The Birding Life and Bird Journal on Facebook
2) Like this post and answer the following simple question in the comments section of this post – Because Bird Journal installs natively onto your PC, what does this mean for the user? (the answer is in the blog post)
3) Tag three friends
4) Share the post using the hashtag (please make sure the post settings are on public)

The prize winner will be announced on Wednesday the 9th of December at 7pm

Don't forget that everyone who enters any of the daily competitions will go into the draw for the grand prize, which is a pair of Vortex Diamondback 10x42 Binoculars.

Please note that the competition is only open to South African residents.

Read part three of the The Ultimate Birders Christmas Wish-List
https://www.thebirdinglife.com/post/the-ultimate-birders-christmas-wish-list-part-3

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01/12/2020

Saturday, 28 November 2020, marked BirdLife South Africa’s 36th Annual Birding Big Day (BBD). Whilst not typically one for 'competitive birding', it was wonderful to be able to partake this year representing Team Zonke iNyoni where we finished 2nd overall (out of over 300 teams) with 329 bird species recorded. It was incredibly close right to the end between many of the teams and a big congratulations goes out to The Raven Dikkops, for winning BBD 2020 and logging a huge total of 335 birds, also breaking the previous South African record of 325 species tallied in a single day! Our route through the beautiful and biodiverse Limpopo Province (centred on the Polokwane Plateau and surrounds) also affirmed again what an amazing country South Africa is. Apart from all the camaraderie on the day, BBD also helps raise awareness around South Africa’s amazing birdlife, and is also a fundraising initiative for Birdlife South Africa. (Pictured with other 2020 Zonke team members - Joe Grosel, Selwyn Rautenbach and Allan Weideman. Allan did an amazing job driving us around safely on the day! Joe's knowledge of and passion for Limpopo's birds is inspiring. Selwyn has been a die-hard stalwart in the Zonke team for many years.)

23/10/2020

26/09/2020

With the rains, the birds are returning to the Bushveld in droves! And we are are so please to announce that Paul Nkhumane is now available at Lindani as a birding guide. With years of experience, and a keen eye, a birding adventure with Paul is an unforgettable experience.

Contact Paul today at 073 670 5857 or call our office on 083 631 5579 if you would like to book him at Lindani. 😊

05/05/2020

Our Bird of the Year, the Southern Ground-Hornbill, is a fascinating species that is endemic to Africa. This month we bring you another infographic with more interesting facts about them!

The FREE materials from this month and previous months, including fact files and lesson plans, are all available on our website at https://www.birdlife.org.za/bird-of-the-year-2020/.

We are proud to be partnering with the BirdLife Species Guardians for the Southern Ground-Hornbill the Mabula Ground Hornbill Project and we are grateful to the Hans Hoheisen Charitable Trust for their support of this campaign.