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Seabirding off Cape Point

10,000 Birds

Birding has been an all-consuming interest for Patrick Cardwell since boyhood days spent in a wildlife-rich environment. Also present in good El Nino years are the occasional and much sought after Blue Petrel with its distinctive black sub-terminal tail band with white trailing edge, a unique diagnostic feature amongst petrels.

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Hawks In Flight, Second edition: A Review of a New Version of a Birding Classic

10,000 Birds

Third, Hawks in Flight was primarily illustrated by David Sibley’s excellent black-and-white drawings, supplemented with a collection of black-and-white photographs in the back of the book. ” There are the classic field marks, size of head and shape of tail, but, we are told, never rely on just one or two features!