 Welcome to our Bird Club! We started the Stellenbosch branch of BirdLife South Africa in September 2006 and people enjoy our interesting activities.
Admire our galleries, regularly enlarged!
New: Bird Potpourri, Awie's small birds and Water Birds
Do you have superb 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:
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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