In spite of the dive speed at an angle of around 35 degrees I was able to catch the feather configuration that produces the drumming noise caused by the airflow passing rapidly over the stiffened and widely spread tail feathers during aerial display late one afternoon.
African Snipe taken in the Chobe area
African Snipe, amazing aerial display
SA AGULHAS – WINTER VOYAGE TO THE PACK ICE OF ANTARCTICA (by Patrick Cardwell)
In Search of Globally Threatened WILLIAM’S LARK (Mirafra williamsi) in Kenya
Big Birding Day – Korocreek Wildlife & Golf Estate – 11 January 2016
Superficial Lookalikes of the Tanqua Karoo – Karoo Prinia and Namaqua Warbler
The Western and Northern Cape suite of Long-billed Larks: telling them apart
PELAGIC BIRDING CAPE TOWN: LEUCISTIC WHITE-CHINNED AND SPECTACLED PETRELS – points of distinction
BIRDING IN CAPE TOWN: CAPE PENDULINE TITS – DIMINUTIVE AND DELIGHTFUL in THE WEST COAST
BIRDING IN CAPE TOWN : KNYSNA SCRUB WARBLER – DELIGHTFUL SKULKER OF NOTE…
SPRING FLOWERS & BIRDS – TOUR WEST COAST TO NIEUWOUDVILLE 2013: FROM GAZANIAS TO GANNETS
VISITOR TO OUR SOUTH AFRICAN SHORES – NORTHERN ROCKHOPPER PENGUIN
TIGERS, TAILORBIRDS, TREEPIES AND TEMPLES – INDIA AT ITS BEST
CINNAMON-BREASTED WARBLER – GEM OF THE GREAT KAROO – BIRDING the KAROO
LITTLE CRAKE in CAPE TOWN: NEW BIRD FOR THE SOUTH AFRICAN LIST!
Anne Albatross’s Cape Town Pelagic Trip Report 3rd March 2012, by Patrick Cardwell
OF CUCKOOS IN GENERAL AND GREAT SPOTTED CUCKOOS IN PARTICULAR…
THE UNIQUE ‘SAFARI’ HOUSEBOATS OF THE CHOBE RIVER in BOTSWANA
SAUNTERING UP SANI PASS – One of the birding highlights in South Africa
AUTUMN BIRDING TRIP FROM CAPE TOWN – Private Birding Safari Cape Town & The Western Cape
PRIVATE GUIDED BIRDING TOUR – KWAZULU NATAL TO KRUGER including Sani Pass
KRUGER NATIONAL PARK – DRAKENSBERG – KWAZULU NATAL, SELF DRIVE
CAPE TOWN TO KRUGER PARK VIA THE DRAKENSBERG MOUNTAINS AND KZN
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