Bird magazine August 2025 : Free download PDF
My YouTube channel is still growing, now over 60,000 subscribers. Thank you very much for your support. Thank you for watching, sharing, and helping us grow a community that celebrates nature, conservation, and the joy of birds!
I would like to welcome Dr Rob Marshall from Carlingford Animal Hospital, Carlingford NSW in Australia. I am promoting Dr Rob’s book on Eclectus Parrots on pages 4 and 5. Just click on the link for further information. I also added Dr Rob on the Avian Veterinarians list.
In this month’s Standard edition: More YouTube’s Community Post Quizzes, Live from the Backyard, Avicultural tips from PASA webinar, Understanding Your Bird’s Excessive Screaming, BirdLife South Africa Rudd’s Lark Critically Endangered in South Africa, and so much more.
I am busy creating an index of all my YouTube videos, as per pages 14 to 16, to make it easier to find specific videos. I am going to expand this list in categories and make it available as a free eBook.
In the Premier edition there are some great articles about: The Derbyan Parakeet, Space, competition and incentives for parrots, Softbill Housing, and much more.
I can promote your organization with a video and on our website by becoming a Premier magazine subscriber or as a YouTube member.
Happy reading, and please do not hesitate to provide feedback for my inspiration.
Petrus Albertus van Tonder and The World Wide Birds team (you, the subscribers, and the sponsors)
I am happy to announce that our latest Premier magazine subscriber is Dr Rob Marshall, from Carlingford Animal Hospital, in NSW, Australia. I am promoting their book called The Eclectus Parrot. Just click on the cover for more information.
My YouTube live stream is up and running. It is called Live! From about 8 to 5 SA Time – Garden Birds of Gauteng, South Africa. Please pop in, leave a comment in the chat, and like the stream. Would so much appreciate it.
These species of birds can currently be seen:
A Karoo thrush – enjoying the water, and running the garden for insects
Cape and house sparrows – coming for their daily seed
Ring-necked and laughing doves – thinking the seed only belongs to them
Red-headed Finches with the babies
Grey go-away-birds – coming to eat some apple
Dark-capped bulbuls – singing while enjoying the fruit
Arrow-marked babblers- coming with noise and taking over
Cape robin-chat – running the garden for insects, and now also coming to eat suet
Southern masked weavers – singing their lungs out and getting ready to build nests
Southern Boubou – jumping the feeding station while eating
Black-collared Barbets – thinking they are kings, by chasing the other birds away.
It is a portable web camera, so I bring it in every night; therefore, it is only live during the day, SA time. It will show up on my YouTube home page when it is live. Just click on the screenshot to see if I am currently live:
