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Bird ID Template

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Rosie's water birds
Pieter's Waterbirds
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Klaus Kassel at WCNP
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Bird Potpourri
Awie's Birds

Verreaux's Eagle

Welcome to our Bird Club!

 

This is the Stellenbosch branch of BirdLife South Africa and people enjoy our interesting activities.
For information on our events phone Nico Venter 082 572 7602
Non-members are always welcome and the entrance to our meetings is free.
Would you like to receive our regular newsletter?
Write to Bird at adept.co.za    

Admire our galleries, regularly enlarged!
New: Awie's Water Birds 3 and Awie's Birds large and small


Do you have good photos of South African Birds?
Please contact Rosie: Webmaster at StellenboschBirds.com


If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
wrote Carl Linnaeus who invented the Latin binomial system of naming plants and animals, which is still in use. DNA research has given new insights into the relationship of birds. The classification of bird families has changed tremendously from the one you find in older bird guides and is still not quite settled as new research will surely bring a few more surprises.
Example: Songbirds (Oscines) are divided into ravenlike birds (Corvida) and all other Paserida. Paradise Flycatcher and Batis now belong to Corvida! Cape Batis is placed between Bokmakierie and the Pied Crow in the Jill Adam's gallery.
Find information and lists of names at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, download the classification and species order used in the new Roberts: PDF - 20KB and the 'new' Southern African bird list


Do join us as a member! Load down the Membership Application form (pdf file)
The BirdLife SA alphabet (pdf.file) explains our aims

Members can order bird books, wildlife books and other material from us directly, at a reduced price.
Phone Nico Venter  082 572 7602
or write an e-mail  
Please let us know if you want anything you do not find at the shop!

Links of the day:
Some birds have a remarkable talent for dancing, two studies published in Current Biology suggest.
Watch Snowball, a sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita eleanora ), dance to the beat of Everybody by the Backstreet Boys.

Tracking reveals songbirds' route

Oiseaux.net - A magnificent website on the birds of the world - in French and English.
Envolez-vous au pays des oiseaux

Meetings for all at Cape Bird Club

Support the Southern African Bird Atlas Project 2: www.sabap2.org

Visit the WESTERN CAPE BIRDING ROUTES

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Verreaux's Eagle   Aquila verreauxi
© Jill Adams (in Richard Liversidge, The Birds Around us)


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