by Louis Jordaan | Jul 31, 2020 | Uncategorised
The omission of bird calls from the recommended steps to follow when trying to identify an unfamiliar bird is intentional. Bird calls, beware! Many birders put a great premium on bird calls as a means of identification. Of course, the calls of many of our birds are...
by Louis Jordaan | Jul 17, 2020 | Uncategorised
This sixth step in the recommended guidelines to identify unknown birds is not in the last position because it is least important. Quite often neglecting this exercise can make the task of identifying a bird very difficult! And those of you who’ve been to visit...
by Louis Jordaan | Jul 14, 2020 | Uncategorised
One needs not be an experienced birder to realise that not all birds occurring in a region can be observed everywhere. And, consequently, that different species of birds prefer different environments, also referred to as habitats. This important aspect, preferred...
by Louis Jordaan | Jul 9, 2020 | Uncategorised
You might well ask why is it that noting the colour(s) of the plumage of a bird is not the first step recommended in this series. (If you missed the previous post, you can read it here.) Step four: The colours of the plumage and other parts of the bird. Very often...
by Louis Jordaan | Jul 3, 2020 | Uncategorised
The third step in the recommended approach to identifying an unknown bird involves another often overlooked feature of a bird (in the previous post we looked at the bill), which can be crucial in determining to which group a bird belongs, and in a number of cases,...