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What is so special about wattled cranes? Wattled cranes are the largest crane species in Africa. They are only found on the continent and there are only about 9,600 left in Zambia, Botswana, Angola, ...
Three species of the melodic African warbler bird refuse to get up early and sing their customary daybreak songs when the weather is cold. This new discovery was made recently by a team of soundscape ...
When conservation efforts bring a species back from the brink of extinction, it is worth celebrating. It is no easy feat to implement policy changes, and it can be challenging to convince those who ...
The recently released State of the World’s Birds report by BirdLife International paints a grim picture of the status quo in 2022. Nearly half of the world’s bird species are in decline, while one in ...
South Africa’s most threatened bird, the Botha’s Lark, is teetering on the brink of becoming the country’s first recorded avian extinction, with fewer than 340 individuals thought to remain in the ...
Without conservation action, the Botha’s Lark, South Africa’s most threatened terrestrial bird species, faces extinction as early as 2025. With an estimated 340 individuals left in the wild in South ...