Books Stellenbosch Birds The University Town of Stellenbosch is situated in the most beautiful corner of the world, the Western Cape in South Africa.
About Links Books Bird galleries Species pages List of Bird Photos Jill Adams' Birds (Watercolours) More of Jill's birds Nico's Birds of Prey Nico's Owls Small birds Waterbirds Rosie' Turacos Rosie's water birds Pieter's Waterbirds Helderberg Waderbash Klaus Kassel at WCNP Peet's Birds Okavango Bird Potpourri Awie's Birds Beautiful Kalahari Fritz Weaver Basie van Zyl's birds Basie's Birds of Prey Ingo's Birds Louis Groenewald's birds Pieter's Potpourri Awie's Water games Awie's Kalahari Birds Roland Hill's Birds John Murray's Birds Hennie Cilliers' Birds Pieter La Grange's Birds Kirsten Frost's Birds Adam Riley's Birds Chris Krog's Birds Michael McSweeney Mark Drysdale's Birds Birds Potpourrie 2012 Johan van Noordwyk Brian Culver's Birds Tinus Lamprecht's Birds Billy Steenkamp's Birds	Welcome to Stellenbosch Birds! Links of the day   Latest bird news The Stellenbosch Bird club was recently dissolved, but this site lives on as a special site by Rosie Breuer books, publisher of special editions. I recommend to join outings and events at Cape Birdclub, Somerset West Birdclub or any other near you. Meetings for all at Cape Bird Club   Interesting links   Our wonderful Paarl outing (when our club still existed). Admire our galleries, regularly enlarged. I beg you to inform me when you find errors or have suggestions for improvements!   New: * Lark * Brian Culver's Birds much enlarged *   *  Billy Steenkamp's Birds * Chris Krog's Birds much enlarged * Tinus Lamprecht's Birds * Johan van Noordwyk' Birds * Mark Drysdale's Birds * Yellow Bishop * Verreauxs' Eagle * Little Bee-eater * White-fronted Bee-eater * Southern Ground-Hornbill * Chris Krog's Birds (enlarged)  Green Wood-Hoopoe * Bronze and Magpie Mannikin * African Green-Pigeon * Crimson-breasted Shrike * Kittlitz's Plover * African Openbill * Yellow-billed Stork * Egyptian Goose * Little Egret * Grey Heron * Black-headed Heron * Purple Heron * Cattle Egret * Purple-crested Turaco(enlarged) * Michael McSweeney's Birds * Kirsten Frost's Birds * Adam Riley's Birds * African Purple Swamphen * African Harrier-Hawk * Collared Sunbird * White-bellied Sunbird * Yellow Canary * Cape Rock-jumper * Vulture * Bateleur * African Hoopoe * Southern Carmine Bee-eater Do you have excellent photos of South African Birds for our List of Bird Photos? Please contact me: Webmaster at StellenboschBirds.com A hint to all: never work on your photos in jpg format, rather turn them into tiff or another format that does not deteriorate the photo. If you have good photos, please send the original or large size, but send me small ones first for me to choose from. I am updating the website often, so please always reload all pages, in case your computer shows you an old version. Have fun with birds! Making galleries of bird photos or paintings is just one of my pastimes, beside watching birds. Rather than reading the news for too long, I go and visit bird websites. For a good laugh, I read one of Mike's answers to letters: Ask the Bird Folks Latest bird news: Pel's Fishing-Owl A suprising sight in Kirstenbosch, Cape Town, October 2012! Abdim's Stork - A rare visitor to the Western Cape! Near Arniston - 7 October 2012 © Tinus Lamprecht Black Skimmer - a visitor from America 6.10.2012: A first for SA!! - at Rietvlei Photo taken in Cape Town by Michael McSweeney More Bird news Book News: Because I love watching birds, I made Zettelwitz, the hero of my books, into a bird watcher, too. This childish wizard develops into a decent man, because he loves Ronja and - to his surprise - he feels much better being liked for his useful craft, than hated for his cruel jokes. Practise your languages with these bilingual books, enjoy the story of a crazy wizard and get to know some birds and plants of our area with Zettelwitz - Table Mountain Wizard by Rosemarie Breuer, in German and English and Die Towenaar van Tafelberg - Table Mountain Wizard in Afrikaans and English with 74 Illustrations by the author and 60 bird illustrations by Jill Adams Now also available as e-books in several formats. Zettelwitz Kindle versions in German and English: At amazon.com: Zauberer Zettelwitz vom Tafelberg (German Edition) and Zettelwitz the Table Mountain Wizard At Amazon.de: Zauberer Zettelwitz vom Tafelberg and Zettelwitz the Table Mountain Wizard Order the printed books and the pdf version with the name of your choice:   Your book is absolutely brilliant! I can't wait to have children and will save it for them! Fantastic that you are also doing American and European versions. Adam Riley Rockjumper Birding Tours Also available at More editions to follow with birds of different regions of the world: Krüger Park Wizard, Mkuzi Wizard, Kalahari Wizard Zettelwitz the Wizard (European and American versions) and more in further European and South African languages Bird news: Stray Fulvous Duck and the European migrant, Little Crake, in the Cape! Photos taken in Cape Town by Michael McSweeney. Squacco Heron photographed at Paarl Waterworks by Tinus Lamprecht; African Openbill, Yellow Wagtail and African Snipe, photographed by Neal Cooper at the Strandfontein waterworks in March A Peregrine Falcon is often seen in the fir trees near Karlien en Kandas Speelskool in Die Boord African Openbill (Oopbekooievaar) storks were recently seen on a small dam near the traffic lights on the Lynedoch road. (December 09) Please contact us, when you see unusual birds. 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 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 Links of the day: 11 year old Aiden sent me a very useful link: Bird-watching Grant McCreary's The Birders Library - Book reviews and news www.outdoorphoto.co.za Kirsten Frost   www.naturephotography.co.za An excellent site: All About Birds The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a comprehensive resource for North American birds Game Bird Art by Penny Meakin - beautiful! Hannes Lochner Wildlife & Nature Photography 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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