Tag: cuckoo

Birding, Birding Lodges, Trips

Birding Zaagkuilddrift Road

December 21, 2024 by Peter 1 Comment

Say you are in Johannesburg for business, and you are really tired of sitting in the dark during the inevitable South African load shedding....

Birding

Birds in a landscape

December 13, 2024 by David T 3 Comments

I’m really a birdwatcher, not a bird photographer, though these days I usually carry a camera. I do so for a variety of reasons,...

Birds

The cuckoo tree

July 13, 2019 by Redgannet 1 Comment

On a recent trip to India, a non-descript tree caught my attention. It was overlooking the butterfly garden in Sanjeevaiah Park, Hyderabad. The hysterical...

Birding

Pallid Cuckoo

May 8, 2016 by Clare M 1 Comment

Two weekends ago we went away for a bush camping trip and the weather was perfect! Hot days around 40c/104f, but the nights were...

Trips

Lake Illawarra-New South Wales

July 27, 2014 by Clare M 3 Comments

As you can see from the above photo there was a day that we needed to get out of the Southern Highlands in New...

Birds

A Strategic Arms Race Among Birds

February 18, 2014 by Greg 2 Comments

The vast majority of the 10,000+ living species of birds are passerines, and the vast majority of those have a similar system of breeding:...

Birding

Little Bronze-Cuckoo or “a Xmas miracle”

December 22, 2013 by Clare M 2 Comments

The Little Bronze-Cuckoo, Chalcites minutillus or Chrysococcyx minutillus depending on your field guide is one of those birds that you will hear a lot...