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Cape Sugarbird Promerops cafer
Kirstenbosch Botanic Gardens, Cape Town

07 September 2006
 
Sugarbirds Promeropidae are endemic to southern Africa, and are represented by just two species, the Cape Sugarbird Promerops cafer and Gurney’s Sugarbird P. gurneyi. Both are found almost exclusively in South Africa, with a small, isolated population of Gurney’s Sugarbird in the eastern highlands of neighbouring [...]

Cape Canary Serinus canicollis
Kirstenbosch and the Karoo. September 2006
 

Kirstenbosch Botanic Gardens, September
 
 

(with Black-headed Canary in background)
 

Tanqua Karoo, September

 
Photographs copyright Charlie Moores
 

Willet (Eastern)
Business brought me down to central New Jersey yesterday, so I thought I’d cap off the day by dropping in at storied Sandy Hook, part of the magnificent Gateway National Recreation Area. Gateway NRA is the same parks complex that includes Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, so you know that if the name is Gateway, [...]