Boomslang attack on two nestling Cape Rockjumpers

The boomslang is known as a bird-eating snake that hunts from trees (boomslang is Afrikaans for "tree snake"), but it also lives in the tree-less Fynbos of South Africa where it does quite well hunting on the ground. This may be affecting our Rockjumper populations, if increasing temperatures earlier in the year mean boomslang are active earlier.