Cranes are some of the world’s most majestic birds, with 15 species found globally. Four of these are found in Africa. The ...

Dr Rion Lerm is a functional ecologist whose thesis focused on the drivers and diversity of bird distribution dynamics in the ...

South African poultry producers have the capacity to make up for the loss of Brazilian chicken meat imports owing to an outbreak of avian influenza, or bird flu, in that country, says South African ...

That's the headline of an urgent appeal by the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB), ...

The size of the wattled crane population in KwaZulu-Natal – fewer than 400 birds – makes it incredibly vulnerable to catastrophic events, such as disease. This would put the species at risk of ...

Cranes are some of the world's most majestic birds, with 15 species found globally. Four of these are found in Africa. The wattled crane in South Africa was in decline, but seems to have turned a ...

Read more: What South African farmers can do to protect endangered grassland birds Grasslands are also foraging areas for the family of wattled cranes as the chick becomes larger. Wattled cranes ...