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Sombre Greenbul Andropadus importunus
Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, South Africa
 
The Sombre Greenbul is a resident breeder in coastal bush, evergreen forest and dry shrub land in eastern Africa from Ethiopia to the Cape in South Africa. Though it’s a common bird, as anyone who’s looked for them will now it does tend to stay hidden in foliage [...]

Cape Bulbul Pycnonotus capensis
Cape Province, South Africa (various dates)
 
The Cape Bulbul is a southern South African endemic found in the coastal bush and fynbos of the Western and Eastern Cape, as well as exotic thickets, gardens and parks. A conspicuous species, like many other similar African Pycnonotus bulbuls it tends to sit chattering away at [...]

Orange-breasted Sunbird Anthobaphes violacea
Cape Town, South Africa

The beautiful Orange-breasted Sunbird Anthobaphes violacea is endemic to the fynbos of southwestern South Africa, but also occurs in parks and gardens. Often tame and quite approachable (especially in eg Botanic Gardens), the Orange-breasted Sunbird is a common breeder across its limited range, and an altitudinal migrant moving to [...]

Kirstenbosch Botanic Gardens, Cape Town
07 September 2006
 
After my exertions of yesterday in the Karoo, I was in two minds whether to go out again - but, what the heck, I’m not likely to be back here again for a while and there were still a couple of very easily seen endemics I hadn’t caught up [...]

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