Jan 22
Passeri suborder - round 1, section 1
Which is the best bird?
Superb lyrebird
Olive warbler
Chowchilla
North Island kokako
Philippine leafbird
Fan-tailed berrypecker
Philippine fairy-bluebird
Drakensberg rockjumper
Voting ended onJan 29
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Passeri suborder - round 1, section 1
Which is the best bird?
Superb lyrebird
Olive warbler
Chowchilla
North Island kokako
Philippine leafbird
Fan-tailed berrypecker
Philippine fairy-bluebird
Drakensberg rockjumper
Drakensberg Rockjumper, Chaetops aurantius, family Chaetopidae, South Africa
photograph by The Flacks Photography
Drakensberg Rockjumper or Orange-breasted Rockjumper (Chaetops aurantius), Afriski, Butha-Buthe, Lesotho.
photograph by Alandmanson | Wikipedia CC
Rockjumper Birding Tours’ Private Tours Department has grown rapidly in the past few years. Many successful tours have been set-up, catering for any specific needs or just pure exclusivity.
A recent 4-day private tour of the Drakensberg region in South Africa incorporated a day of hiking into the itinerary. The hike took us up the foothills of the Drakensberg Mountains to view some 800-year-old ‘Bushman Rock Art’, as shown here. This was definitely a highlight, along with great bird sightings such as Drakensberg Rockjumper, Gurney’s Sugarbird, Karoo and Drakensberg Prinias, Bearded and Cape Vultures, Jackal Buzzard, Half-collared Kingfisher, Bokmakierie, Swee Waxbill, Cape Grassbird, Long-tailed Widowbird, South African Cliff-Swallow, Fairy Flycatcher, Layard’s Warbler, Levaillant’s and Pale-crowned Cisticolas and even the hard-to-find Fan-tailed Grassbird.
Feel free to contact our Private Tours Department at [email protected] to discuss a possible tour and itinerary that caters for your specific needs – to any destination worldwide!
Rockjumper (Chaetopidae) family / genus Chaetops
Which is the best bird?
Drakensberg rockjumper
Cape rockjumper
This small genus is monotypic in its family.
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