Six Months in South Africa: Coordinated Avifaunal Roadcount

A Coordinated Avifaunal Roadcount in Eastern Cape’s Smaldeel Conservancy offered spectacular views of Eastern Cape veld and the Amathole Mountains and provided sightings of antelopes, a bat-eare...

Six Months in South Africa: Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer and the Coelacanth

Two serendipitous observations led me to explore the story of Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer and the coelacanth, possibly the greatest scientific find of the twentieth century.   Recently, while Vili...

Six Months in South Africa: Winter Birding at Fort Fordyce Nature Reserve

Spectacular views of the Amathole Mountains capped a day of winter birding at Fort Fordyce Nature Reserve that yielded up-close views of Afromontane forest birds, including glorious male collared and ...

Six Months in South Africa: Grahamstown’s Gunfire Hill at Sunrise

In the brilliant light of a clear South African morning, I ran up Grahamstown’s Gunfire Hill at sunrise and was greeted by stunning views of the 1820 Settlers National Monument and Fort Selwyn.Â...