2 July 2025 — Gurbantünggüt Desert, Xinjiang A satellite-tagged European Roller, named Rory by the late BirdLife patron Pamela Isdell, has been successfully located and photographed by Chinese researchers after completing a staggering 15,300 km migration from South Africa to northern China. The discovery marks a breakthrough in understanding one of the world’s most elusive intercontinental migrants....

2 July 2025, Johannesburg — In a rare conservation success story, the White-winged Flufftail, one of Africa’s most elusive and threatened birds, has been downlisted from Critically Endangered to Endangered in South Africa, thanks to over a decade of innovative research and fieldwork led by BirdLife South Africa with support from the Middelpunt Wetland Trust. Feature image of a White-winged...

Vultures don’t always have the luxury of feeding on freshly killed carcasses! During the hot summer months, carcasses tend to decompose very rapidly which means that these birds have to contend with a meal that is in the state of decay.  Juveniles searching for food remains at a decaying zebra carcass. As long as there...