About

Birding Dispatch is a directory of places to stay for birders. It started in November 2026 with lodges, camps and guest farms in South Africa and the rest of Africa, and other regions will follow.

The first listings come from Safari Dispatch, our sister site, which lists safari lodges across Africa. More come from BirdLife South Africa’s Recommended Accommodation list.

Where a fact comes from someone else, the listing says so: BirdLife South Africa for its Recommended Accommodation mark, BirdLife for Important Bird Areas, and eBird or the place’s own bird list for species counts. If we can’t confirm something, we leave it out rather than guess.

The bird plates across the site are public domain and CC0 scans from the Rijksmuseum, the University of Amsterdam, the Biodiversity Heritage Library and Wikimedia Commons. Each one carries its species, artist and year.

Birding Dispatch is edited by Murray Walker in Cape Town, who also runs Safari Dispatch.