The Cape Bird Club
Counts
photograph by Ann Koeslag
Little Bittern
For more information about these projects, see dates and venues below.
- All members and visitors are encouraged to participate in these outings at the various sites.
- Information gathered helps scientists determine many findings about our natural habitats and the birds that use them.
- This also helps the management policies by the relevant authorities in the Cape Fynbos areas, which is a World Heritage Site.
- Send in your photographs to the webmaster.
- We need to let others know that we care about "our birding areas".
Do you know
You can contribute to;
- the BIRP (Birds in Reserves Project) run by the ADU (Animal Demographic Unit) based at the University of Cape Town.
- By doing so you as a "citizen scientist" are helping to establish local and national species information and contribute to bird conservation. The process is fairly simple; volunteers go out to any PA (protected area) and simply make a list of all the bird species observed. Data can be collected up to a maximum of seven days.
- Please start at your nearest reserve and record all the birds you see and submit them via the data gathering process.
For more information go the the BIRP website, as above. Please download the BIRP instruction booklet which contains all the relevant information pertaining to this project.
The project is supported and endorsed by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) as well as BirdLife South Africa (BLSA).
Marius Wheeler is the Project Co-ordinator. tel 021 650 4698.
CWAC – is
the Co–ordinated Waterfowl Annual Census.
This
takes place throughout Southern Africa, with the results processed at the Animal
Demographic Unit (ADU) at the University of Cape Town.
Marius Wheeler is the Manager and can be contacted on 021 650 4698 or 084
511 5236.
Click on the logo above for the website.
Co-ordinator – Donella Young. 021 650 4239 (w)
CAR – is
the Co–ordinated Avifaunal Roadcounts.
Contact Donelle Young on 021 650 4239 at the ADU.
Visit the website for more ADU , then click on Research, then CAR.
