Ghana tour highlights

Dec 20

News is just in from David Hoddinott, who is guiding a private Rockjumper tour in Ghana: some of the many highlights so far have included 5 Eurasian Griffons (a new bird for Ghana as far as we know!), the little-known Etchecopar’s Owlet, the notoriously difficult Nkulengu Rail (photographed), White-crested Tiger...

Africa’s endangered species

Dec 18

Although extinction is a natural phenomenon, experts have determined that the current rate of bird extinction is somewhere between 1,000 and 10,000 times the background rate. More than 150 bird species are known to have become extinct over the past 500 years, and many more are estimated to have been...

Rockjumper sponsors Southern Bald Ibis monitoring programme

Nov 12

Rockjumper is proud to announce our sponsorship of the Southern Bald Ibis monitoring programme, which monitors the annual breeding success rates of the Ibises’ breeding colonies in South Africa. Our donation assists in at least covering the fuel costs for the project monitors, all of whom are volunteers and receive...

Namibia’s 15 key birds

Nov 12

(This article first appeared on 10000birds.com) Gaining independence in 1990, Namibia is one of Africa’s “newer” nations, although not quite as newborn as South Sudan which has yet to celebrate its first anniversary! Before self-rule it was administered by South Africa and known as South-West Africa. However, Namibia’s colonial history...

Rockjumper becomes Blue Swallow Guardians

Oct 22

Rockjumper is proud to announce that we have recently become Blue Swallow Guardians through our support of The Endangered Wildlife Trust’s (EWT) Threatened Grassland Species Programme. This vital project aims to reverse the rapid decline (and likely extinction within a mere 10 years) of South Africa’s Blue Swallow population, of...