The Cape Bird Club

Monthly Meetings

Evening Meetings are on the 2nd Thursday of every month at 20h00, we meet at;
The Nassau Centre,
Groote Schuur High School,
Palmyra Road, Newlands.

Visitors and non – members, are very welcome, tea and biscuits are served afterwards.

Next

2010

Thurs 11 February - Grassland management by Ian Little.

Thurs 11 March - Annual General Meeting and talk on Pelagic Birds.

Thurs 8 April - talk on Bird Migration.

Thurs 13 May - talk on Blacksparrowhawks.

Previous Meetings

2010
Thurs 14 January  - Penguins and their spots by Richard Shirley.

2009
 Thurs 10 December  Members evening & Year End  Party
Thurs 12 November  Game capture and relocation by Justin Bucmann.
Thurs 8 October  A delight of Owls by Peter Steyn.
Thurs 10 September  A birding passage to India by John Bowman.
Tues  25 August  Save the Flamingo by Mark Anderson.    updated 14/09/2009
Thur 9 July  What does BirdLife SA mean to the Cape Bird Club? by Caroline Ah Shene.
Thur 11 June  Birding in Tanzania by Mel Tripp and Vernon Head.
Thur  14 May  Celebrating Charles Darwin by Prof George Branch.
Thur  2 April  CBC Trip to Madagascar by Willene van der Merwe.
Thur 12 March AGM. Heather Howell will give a short talk on Owls. 
 Minutes of the 2008 AGM     Chairmans Report
12th February The Language of Birds by Anthony van Zyl
8th January Birds of Australia - Part 2 by Otto Schmidt

2008
 11th December Diamond Year end Wrap–up Party
13th November  An introduction to P.G and a Rondevlei update by Penny Glanville
9th October Wirebirds and Frigatebirds - Voyageto St Helena and Assension by Peter Steyn
11th September Fitzroy to Lockroy - an Antartic Adventure by Jonathan Hemp
14th August Madagascar through a looking glass by Ian Sinclair
10th July How different are the Birds of Australia by Otto Schmidt
12th June Tracking the Albatros by Samantha Petersen.
8th May CBC - Diamond Anniversary celebration.
10th April  Owls by Geoff Lockwood. 
14th - 16th March BLSA - AGM, in Hermanus.
13th March CBC - AGM, and presentation Raptor Episodes by Dr Andrew Jenkins.
 Chairmans annual report   and   Conservation Chairmans report
7th February The African Penguin by Heather Howell.
10th January Antartic Impressions by Peter Steyn.

2007
6th December Members evening and Year End Celebration.
8th Nov Kamfers Dam and the conservation of Lesser Flamingos in southern Africa by Mark Anderson
11th October A base-line study of the biodiversity of the north eastern DRC by Dalton Gibbs
13th September Poles apart by Dr Frank Hallet
2nd August The Albatross Task Force - at sea and on land by Meidad Goren
12th July The migrating Kestrel Project by Anthony van Zyl
7th June An introduction to the new Bird Atlas Project by Les Underhill
10th May African Penguins of Dyer Island by Lauren Waller.
12th April Verreaux's Eagles of the Cape by Lucia Rodrigues.
8th March Annual General Meeting and "A tale of 2 1/2 Islands research and life on South Africas guano islands" by Vince Ward
Chairman's 2006 - 2007 Report
8th February Birding in KZN is fabulous by Helen Fenwick
11th January "What's so bad about House Crows?" by Dalton Gibbs

2006
 7th December Year End Celebration and fun at the Nassau Centre.
9th November Birds and the Environmental Change by Phoebe Barnard.
12th October A bumper summer in Namibia by Otto Schmidt 
14th September A Mega Birding trip to Venezuela by Veron Head.
10th August Mega Pelagics by Trevor Hardaker.
13th July Raptors of Botswana and some Hole Nesting Birds by Mike Soroczynski.
8th June Special Meeting to adopt a new CBC Constitution and appoint an honorary auditor, followed by Threatend Seabirds of Gough Island  by Ross Wanless.
 4th May Avian malaria in the African Penguin - an ongoing threat to its long term survival by Prof Dirk Bellstedt.
6th April Killers, Wetlands and Humans - a conservation researcher occupied by Dr Tony Williams.
9th March  Kenya in the rainy season by Otto Schmidt.
 9th February Annual General Meeting, by Dieter Oschadleus from SAFRING.
12th January Catalysing Community Action for Conservation by Tanaya Goldman, Mzwandile & Leon Peter.

2005
 8th December Year End Celebration at the  Nassau Centre.
10th November Birds Beasts and Blooms by Sibyl Morris.
13th October The diversity and conservation of Tortoises in South Africa by Dr. Ernst Baarde.
21st September, All about BirdLife and the Road Ahead by Prof. Gerhard Verdoorn.
11th August, Frogs of the Western Cape by James Harrison.
14th July, "Blue Crane conservation in the Western Cape" by Kevin Shaw
9th June, "Wildlife of the Tristan Islands", Clifford Dorse.
12th May,"How many Pelicans are too many? Conservation dilemma in the Western Cape" by Marta de Ponte
14th April, "Birds of Brazil" by CBC Chairman, Vernon Head.
10th March, "Gladiators! A new insect order discovered in South Africa",Mike Picker.
10th February, "CBC – Annual General Meeting", Peter Steyn on "Bird Photography"
 13th January, "The Blouberg Conservation Area" by Clifford Dorse

2004
 9th December, "Oystercatchers" by Les Underhill.
19th November,The CBC Annual Party, Pinelands Town Hall
11th November,'The succulent richness of South Africa with reference to bird pollinated species' by Ernst van Jaarsveld.
14th October, 'Waterbird ringing in the South Western Cape' by Doug Harebottle.

                                                                                                                   

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