31. Oct. 2022 / by gavinl / / 0 comments

Evening Meeting: African Penguin conservation at BirdLife SA. Speakers: Christina Hagen and Tegan Carpenter-Kling.

BirdLife South Africa is working hard on several fronts to conserve the Endangered African Penguin. Tegan and Christina will share some of their work on this iconic species. They have been tracking African Penguins during the important post-breeding and pre-moult periods since 2012. Tegan...

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Evening Meeting: the annual Pelican Watch on Malgas and Jutten Islands. Speakers – Mike and Beverley Moll.

Unfortunately, our scheduled presenter, Garret Skead, will be away in January so his talk is postponed until later in the year. January’s talk will now be presented by Mike and Beverley Moll. Their topic will be the annual Pelican Watch on Malgas and Jutten...

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22. Jun. 2022 / by gavinl / / 0 comments

Evening Meeting: Overberg Renosterveld Conservation Trust. Speaker: Dr Odette Curtis-Scott.

Dr Odette Curtis-Scott is the Director of the Overberg Renosterveld Conservation Trust. She will be talking about the work of the Trust over the last 10 years – conserving habitats for our unique biodiversity (including the Endangered Black Harrier). Meet at 19h30 at the...

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21. Jun. 2022 / by gavinl / / 0 comments

Evening Meeting: Topic: Birds and beaches in Brazil

Please note: the change of venue to Novalis Ubuntu Institute, Wynberg. Meet at 19h30 at the Novalis Ubuntu Institute, 39 Rosmead Avenue, Wynberg Speaker: Mike Buckham Mike Buckham shares some of his photos and experiences from a family road-trip in the south-eastern Atlantic Forests and...

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21. Jun. 2022 / by gavinl / / 0 comments

Evening Meeting: Members’ Photographic Evening.

Meet at 19h30 at the Nassau Centre, Groote Schuur High School, Palmyra Road, Newlands. Members are invited to show a selection of 3-10 of their best photos of birds and to tell the story behind them. They can be ‘stand-alone’ photos or a series...

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Evening Meeting: Flock to Marion 2022 – In Search of Seabirds. Speaker: Otto Schmidt.

Meet at 19h30 at the Nassau Centre, Groote Schuur High School, Palmyra Road, Newlands. After a year’s postponement due to the Covid-19 pandemic, 1500 eager birders set off from Cape Town on 24 January 2022 on an 8-day/7-night cruise to the Prince Edward Islands...

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21. Feb. 2022 / by gavinl / / 0 comments

NB CHANGE OF VENUE!! Evening Meeting: Magical Makuleke. Speaker: Jonathan Hemp.

Marje and Jonathan Hemp first visited northern Kruger in 1991, and have returned fairly regularly since. In both 2020 and 2021 they tackled BirdLife SA’s Birding Big Day from the EcoTraining camp in Makuleke, the Conservancy bounded by the Luvuvhu River in the south...

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Evening Meeting: SANCCOB saves seabirds. Speaker: Dr David Roberts.

Dr David Roberts, Clinical Veterinarian at the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB), will present a talk about the organisation’s seabird conservation work. Join us as he shares insights of their proactive efforts and reactive responses to reverse the decline...

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Evening Meeting: Rondevlei: an important conservation area – then and now. Speaker: Dalton Gibbs.

Rondevlei was one of the first nature reserves in Cape Town, starting off as the Rondevlei Bird Sanctuary. It started as a research station for bird migration, providing valuable information which changed our understanding on migratory birds. Since then this protected area has grown,...

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