The unusual wet and cold weather for this time of the year in the Kalahari, Northern Cape, South Africa has resulted in to bird mortalities. According to Dylan Smith, of Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, Northern Cape South Africa “with the cold (4C) and wet (40+mm) we had numbers of bird mortalities - laughing doves, scaly-feathered finches, wattled starling, Kalahari scrub robin and fawn-coloured lark."