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The Bird of the Year 2023 is the The Cape Parrot (Poicephalus robustus). The Cape Parrot (Poicephalus robustus). Bird news Links of the day The Stellenbosch Bird club was dissolved, but this website lives on as a hobby site by Rosie Breuer, making pages with excellent photos by well known photographers. I would like to add short texts about each bird. I especially like the charming descriptions in Richard Liversidge's book, The Birds around us. Alas it is out of print. I think it should be modernised, enlarged and have a new edition. This site is not limited to the birds of the Western Cape anymore, but presents birds of Southern Africa. Admire our galleries and species pages, which I regularly enlarged and updated. Please do inform me when you find errors or have suggestions for improvements!   New: 2 galleries by György Járos: Birds of South Africa. A scientist, whose hobby is to paint a bird every day with digital art using the Procreate program. jarosbirds.html - jarosbirds-2.html I updated the List of Bird Photos, showing the sequence of species according to new DNA research. Last update: 14 December 2021. I was often updating and improving the pages and kept adding photos (Please scroll down for all photos), so please always reload all pages, in case your computer shows you an old version. I think this is my last potpourri and I will retire now, in spite of the many more excellent photos I admire at facebook. I would like to thank the artists and photographers in this site for their graceful permission to add their photos to my List of Bird Photos. I was only collecting photos of South African birds I didn't have yet or I had too few of photos that outshine the ones I already have. Making galleries of bird photos or paintings was just one of my pastimes, beside watching birds. For a good laugh, I read Mike's answers to letters: Ask the Bird Folks My book news: I have made 2 new versions of my Zettelwitz books for Australia and for Europe, have a look: Books. Bird news: Is the Golden Pipit rather a Longclaw? © Stewart Matheson Message by Mark Anderson: The absolutely magnificent original art from the Roberts Bird Guide is available for sale. See www.robertsbirds.co.za/fieldguide-images/ for images of the 397 plates, prices, and details about how to purchase the art. Note that 25% of the proceeds of all sales will go to BirdLife South Africa, thus contributing to the conservation of birds in South Africa. Purple-banded Sunbird First photographs and record of out of range breeding Purple-banded Sunbird at the Lowveld National Botanical Gardens, Nelspruit. Very, very chuffed with my find © Stewart Matheson Elegant Tern - a rarity Really chuffed to be able to find one of these birds this morning - this is probably only the 14th record for Southern Africa. Strandfontein Sewage Works, 25 March 2017 © Trevor Hardaker Another rare bird in the Western Cape! Citrine Wagtail at Strandfontein Sewerage Works © Michael McSweeney Pied Kingfisher © Brian Radford Best Bird pic of the world wide George W Glennie International Wildlife Photographic Competition 2016 Peek, Boo & Hoo at 4 weeks © Chris Jurich Pearl-spotted Owlet Seen at Beaufort West on 23 October 2015, this is truly a Western Cape mega! © Trevor Hardaker Common Cuckoo at Rietvlei, Table Bay Nature Reserve, 2015 © Trevor Hardaker Abdim's Stork - A rare visitor to the Western Cape! Near Arniston - 7 October 2012 © Tinus Lamprecht Black Skimmer - a visitor from America 6.10.2012: A first for SA!! - at Rietvlei Photo taken in Cape Town by Michael McSweeney Stray Fulvous Duck and the European migrant, Little Crake, in the Cape! Photos taken in Cape Town by Michael McSweeney. Please contact us, when you see unusual birds. Book News: The Australian version is available now: Zettelwitz in Oz! In preparation - the Zettelwitz books for Europe and the USA. Because I love watching birds, I made Zettelwitz, the hero of my books, into a bird watcher, too. This childish wizard develops into a decent man, because he loves Ronja and - to his surprise - he feels much better being liked for his useful craft, than hated for his cruel jokes. Zettelwitz - Table Mountain Wizard by Rosemarie Breuer, in German and English and Die Towenaar van Tafelberg - Table Mountain Wizard in Afrikaans and English with 74 Illustrations by the author and 60 bird illustrations by Jill Adams Now also available as e-books in several formats. Zettelwitz Kindle versions in German and English (3. edition, September 2013): Zauberer Zettelwitz vom Tafelberg and Zettelwitz the Table Mountain Wizard Reviews   Order the printed books and the pdf version with the name of your choice:   An outdated pirated pdf of Zettelwitz can be found all over the Net. Please do me the favour to compare it to the new version bought from me or Kindle. Your book is absolutely brilliant! I can't wait to have children and will save it for them! Fantastic that you are also doing American and European versions. Adam Riley Rockjumper Birding Tours More editions to follow with birds of different regions of the world: Krüger Park Wizard, Mkuzi Wizard, Kalahari Wizard Zettelwitz the Wizard (European and American versions)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. Find information and lists of names at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology Links of the day: Vernon R.L. Head, The Rarest Bird in the World: The Search for the Nechisar Nightjar Sabi Sands Game Reserve 2019 BirdLife South Africa official Checklist of Birds in South Africa Jay van Rensburg wildlife photos You tube: Water Thick-knee versus Monitor Lizard I find the BirdLife International factsheets very useful. An example: Eurasian Buzzard Buteo buteo (Steppe or Common Buzzard) Kirsten Frost Nature Photography Movements of a Secretarybird tracked for more than two years! Ian Sinclair; Phil Hockey; Warwick Tarboton; Peter Ryan, Sasol Birds of Southern Africa, Struik, 2014 Grant McCreary's The Birders Library - Book reviews and news www.outdoorphoto.co.za Kirsten Frost   Kirsten facebook An excellent site: All About Birds The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a comprehensive resource for North American birds Bird Art by Penny Meakin - beautiful! Hannes Lochner Wildlife & Nature Photography 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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