 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 aimsMembers 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.
 Meetings for all at Cape Bird Club Support the Southern African Bird Atlas Project 2: www.sabap2.org
Visit the WESTERN CAPE BIRDING ROUTES Any corrections, questions or suggestions? Your Feedback  Verreaux's Eagle Aquila verreauxi
© Jill Adams (in Richard Liversidge, The Birds Around us)
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