FIELD NOTES Feathery Friends Miracles do happen

I recently spent 10 days in iSimangaliso trying to track down some LBJs (little brown jobs) that Iʼd failed to see in the past. While the Cape and yellow-throated longclaws are widespread here in South Africa, the rosy-throated longclaw is restricted to flooded grasslands on the northern Zululand coast, and this species was high on my list of target birds.

Southern Africa has a high diversity of LBJs, a collective name for small, nondescript brownish birds that are very difficult to identify.