Another great year for birding has flown by, presenting our tour leaders with the difficult task of selecting their top bird out of hundreds and thousands of specials seen in 2017. The rest of us, however, have the pleasure of reading the year’s highlights from our leaders as recorded in their own...

During our recent Western Cape Extension of South Africa, we had one extra day to spend in the Cape Town area, because our pelagic was cancelled due to very strong winds. This allowed us the chance to space our birding schedule a bit more, and to maximise our opportunities at the birding spots that we wanted to...