The Cape Bird Club

Counts

Cape Spurfowl.

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).

 Doug Harebottle  -  021 650 2330 or  082 736 3087.


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.
Doug Harebottle  -  021 650 2330 or  082 736 3087.

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.


Monthly Bird and quarterly CWAC Count Sites

Strandfontein count - (Cape Flats Sewerage Works) second Sunday of the month at 08h00.
Dick Barnes is the leader  021 689 1106.

Dick Barnes and Victoria Day counting at S3 pan.        Gill Ford recording counts from Yvonne Knowles,
                                                                                Simon Foggarty and Graham Pringle at pan P7.

Bird Count lists  -  updated 29/11/2011

 


photograph by Dick Barnes

Wally & Pam Cox, Rob Machin, Theo Nel, Mike McCarthy, Paul Meadows, Brenda Anderson, Yvonne Knowles, John Magner, Jean Eva, Derek & Romana Longrigg, Dick Barnes on 13/07/2004, celebrating the 20th Anniversary of CBC counting at Strandfontein.


Wildevloevlei count - (Kommetjie) second Thursday of the month at 08h30.
Eric Barnes is the leader  021 782 5429.


Paarl Bird Sanctuary count - last Saturday of the month at 09h00.
Yvonne Weiss is the leader  021 872 4972.


photograph by Sally Weighill

This group of bird counters at the 10th Anniversary of the CBC at the Paarl Sewrage Works.


 

Kirstenbosch BIRP count - first Sunday of the month at 07h30 (summer) and 08h00 (winter). Meet at the top gate (Rycroft).
Derek Longrigg is the leader  021 674 1248


 

Quarterly CWAC Count Sites

Rietvlei count  takes place on Fridays in January, April, July  and October at 09h00.
Koos Retief is the leader  021 550 1086 (w) or 082 788 6987.


Zandvlei count  takes place in January, April, July  and October at 08h00.    updated 24/11/2011.
Gavin Lawson is the leader  021 705 5224.

Next counts

Saturday 21 January 2012 at 08h00.
- Saturday 21 April 2012.
- Saturday 21 July 2012.
- Saturday 22 October 2012.
- Saturday 19 January 2013.


photograph Kim Kruyshaar

The Black Swan following its friend the Coot on Zandvlei.

 

Combined results of the CWAC counts.

2011

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October Zandvlei upper Zandvlei lower Westlake Wetlands new 24/11/2011
July Zandvlei upper Zandvlei lower Westlake Wetlands new 24/11/2011

An analysis of the Bird Counts at Sandvlei over the period Dec 1974 to Dec 1975 by G.W. Begg

Eddie Friend's bird count from April 1994 at Zandvlei.

 


Bi - annual CWAC Count Sites

Radyn Dam CWAC Count  Malmesbury district  Otto Schmidt  - 021 674 2381.

Next count is on ...... 


Berg River CWAC Count -  Doug Harebottle -  021 650 2330 or  082 736 3087.

Next count is on ......  We need people to help count in the 13 areas some by car others by walking.

This is also very large area and we need help please!!

 


Langebaan CWAC Count -  Doug Harebottle  -  021 650 2330 or  082 736 3087.

Next count is in ........ 

This is also very large area and we need help please!!


 

CAR Count  - Donella Young - 021 650 4239
Next count is in  ........   A fun all day event counting birds from your car.

                                                                                                                                            

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