Welcome to Birbcam!
Birbcam is a live stream of the bird feeder in my garden in the Western Cape of South Africa. I stream during UTC+2 daytime hours, usually 8am to 5pm. Scroll down for a helpful birb ID list!
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Birbcam uses a Hikvision DS-U18 4K UHD webcam running through OBS. Food includes mixed grain wild garden bird seed, suet balls, suet slabs, and nectar. Hosting is through Greenhost, zero CO2 emissions sustainable web hosting. Site built using Grav.
Contact me on Mastodon at @WelshPixie. Donations for bird food welcome at Ko-Fi or PayPal; a box of six big seed bells costs $25, 10kg of good quality bird seed is $20, 10kg of cheaper bird seed is $8, 2kg of shelled peanuts is $10.
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Speckled Pigeon
Columba guinea
Large pigeon with russet white-speckled wings and a red eye patch
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Acacia Pied Barbet
Tricholaema leucomelas
Black and white with a red patch on the forehead
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Pin-Tailed Whydah
Vidua macroura
Male is black and white with a long tail, female brown with bright red beak
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Male Pin-Tailed Whydah
Vidua macroura
Male is black and white with a long tail, female brown with bright red beak
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Southern Red Bishop
Euplectes Orix
Breeding male is bright red and black, female is brown with short tail and light eyebrow stripe
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Rock Pigeon
Columba livia
Pale grey with dark wing stripes, or mottled grey/white, or white/beige
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