gun dogs – Friends of Verloren Valei

Another day at the office - SAFTC expert and human friend on the lookout for francolin

Spring 2017 survey of gamebird populations

January 13, 2018 by Mike Zingel

SAFTC continues building up our database of game-bird numbers. Early on Saturday the 28th of August two groups of South African Field Trial Club (SAFTC) handlers set out with their pointers in drizzly mist to survey francolin populations on Patrysberg, … Read More

Gotcha! Without these seasoned pointers the francolin, masters of camouflage, would not have been found and recorded

Verloren Valei francolin population surveyed by SAFTC

June 25, 2017 by Mike Zingel

By Mike Zingel On a cold, wet yet bracing autumn morning recently, a dozen bird dogs, accompanied by their handlers from the South African Field Trial Club (SAFTC), reserve guides and keen observers, set out across the slopes of the Verloren Valei … Read More