Donating to African Bird Club’s Birding App

Donating to African Bird Club’s Birding App

Rockjumper has partnered with African Bird Club on another exciting app project to aid in the conservation, communication and education about Africa’s birds. The app will be available on the Apple App Store and Google Play in the coming months. To get this project off the ground, Rockjumper had the privilege...

Creating a Penguin Colony

Creating a Penguin Colony

Penguins are nature’s best comedians. While an up-close Marabou Stork is spectacularly ugly, and an adult Bald Eagle is both regal and fierce, penguins are impossibly amusing. Waddling along so very bipedal, stumbling along stony beaches, braying loudly, they seem clumsy yet they are always impeccably...

Wakkerstroom Southern Bald Ibis Project

Wakkerstroom Southern Bald Ibis Project

The Wakkerstroom Southern Bald Ibis Project has been in place for the last 20 years. Groups of volunteers monitor all the breeding colonies of these stunning and range-restricted birds (classified as Vulnerable by IUCN) around Wakkerstroom in eastern South Africa. Each colony is visited 5 or 6 times over their...

Private Tours – A Two Week South African Adventure

Private Tours – A Two Week South African Adventure

Our Private Tours department continues to provide clients with customised adventures to suit each individualised need. A recent tour through South Africa provided our clients with some fantastic experiences as they explored the wonders of the Western Cape, Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Limpopo.[vc_column...

Exploring Eastern and Western South Africa

Exploring Eastern and Western South Africa

With a bit of free time on hand, I decided to visit some familiar and new birding areas in South Africa. The trip started in Cape Town and ended in Durban. Western South Africa The first day of the trip took me along the West Coast, on the N7 – known as the Diamond Route; it was developed by De Beers as a way...

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