Birding for Beginners

Bird watching is much like stamp collecting - you really don’t appreciate it until you already have some stamps in your collection to admire and compare the more you acquire especially if they are colorful or really unusual or rare, the more motivated you are to continue collecting. Birds, though, unlike stamps, are three- dimensional and alive. They exploit the sky and almost every other habitat on earth they fly vast distances sin feed court and breed all in front of the bird watchers eyes.

Bird watching is one of the fastest growing hobbies in SA.This ever increasing interest in SA birds, both by local and foreign enthusiasts is reflected in the diversity of new material continually being devoted to the subject from books magazines and websites and high-tech CD-rooms. Books are undoubtedly one of the most popular and necessary of this items and cater for a diverse readership from to young children and laymen to enthusiastic and knowledgeable amateurs and professionals in the field of ornithology.

Why is Birding additive? Here are some drugs to get you birding:

• Blue Cranes perform elegant dances before the court
• Rosy-faced Lovebirds: when building there nests these remarkable birds carry their nesting material in their feathers on their backs
• Palm-Swifts glue their nests together with sticky saliva?
• Many birders may have come across bird eggs while in the field but do they know why some birds lay speckled eggs, while the eggs of others species are pure white or even bright blue in color? Or why some eggs are round while others are distinctly pointed at one end?
• Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician.