The crisp, metallic ‘klink-klink-klink’ of a blacksmith lapwing is a familiar early morning sound in the foothills of the Drakensberg mountains in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Feziwe Phoswa’s day ...
FORMERLY known as the blacksmith plover, this bird is a common resident across the whole of Southern Africa. It is often seen on the shorelines of dams, pans, vleis, bays, lagoons, grassland, pastures ...