White Storks and Cattle Egrets
When farmers work on their fields, White Storks and Cattle Egrets gather behind the tractor and catch the insects when the ground is turned over.
Eastern Clapper Lark
Eastern Clapper Larks are birds found in central South Africa and are hard to see and identify, but they have a display flight which helps to identify them. They fly up in the air and flap their wings very fast, they rise and fall while they call. This is the best way to identify it.
They feed on insects and seeds. They are common birds.
Cape Wagtail
Cape Wagtails build nests out of many things. They will use animal and human hair, lots of plantmaterial and feathers.
They sometimes use a nest again but usually they build new ones.
Both parents build the nest, help to incubate the eggs and later feed the chicks. They usually lay three eggs.
Cape Robin-Chat
Cape Robin-Chats are beautiful birds. They like to be in bushes and hop around. Sometimes they are curious especially about noises, they will sometimes hop to you or the noise to get a better look.
They eat insects, larvae, berries, little frogs and lizzards.
African Jacana
The African Jacana Male sometimes carry its eggs under its wings, to a drier place. They also carry their chicks under their wings with only legs hanging out.
Water Thick-knee
These Thick-knees have a symbiotic relationship with the crocodile! They eat the scraps of food stuck in the crocodile's mouth, so the crocodiles get their teeth cleaned and the Water Thick-knee gets a meal.
Whitebacked Mousebird
These birds breed at any time of the year when conditions are favourable. Nestlings are fed by both parents and also by helpers. They are mostly found in groups.
They eat fruit, berries, leaves, seeds and nectar.
Mocking Cliff Chat
The Mocking Cliff Chat got its name because it sometimes mocks Dassies.
Cape White-eye
Cape white-eyes are friendly little birds, found throughout a large area South Africa, and they like gardens that have birdbaths and bird feeders in them.
Southern Yellowbilled Hornbill
These Hornbills live in holes in trees. When the female lays eggs the male close the hole so only a little hole is left. The male then gives the female and chicks in the nest food through the hole, until the chicks leave the nests.
Redbilled Oxpecker
Redbilled Oxpeckers help other animals by eating the lice and insects that sit on them.
The animals help the Oxpeckers by providing food for them, which is the lice and insets. If animals work together to each get something good out of it, its called symbiosis.
Oxpeckers also alerts the animals if they spot predators!
