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 Bird ID Template 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	Welcome to Stellenbosch Birds!   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. New: Pieter La Grange's Birds * Cuckoo * Red-knobbed Coot * Lanner Falcon * Bunting * Kestrel * Familiar Chat * Prinia * Apalis * Southern Masked-Weaver * Southern Red Bishop * Neddicky * Common Waxbill  * Cape Sparrow * Eagle-Owl * Korhaan and Bustard * Northern Black Korhaan * Lilac-breasted Roller * Woodpecker * Cape White-eye * Great White Pelican * Drongo * Tawny Eagle * Doves and Pigeons 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 Book News: Also available at Table Mountain Wizard is available as Kindle e-book and number 1 ot 100 best children's books with birds! 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 in 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. 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 In Preparation: The Fynbos Art of Dorothy Dodds (1897 - 1980) - superb watercolours from her rediscovered sketchbooks. Latest bird news: 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: 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! Biodiversity Explorer is devoted to showing and explaining the diversity, biology and interactions of life in Southern Africa. Hannes Lochner Wildlife & Nature Photography 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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