Copyright and Acknowledgements
This
book is dedicated to the memory of Julie te Groen (19222000),
whose selfless dedication to the Cape Bird Club encouraged
a generation of new birders.
Copyright © in text: Callan Cohen and Claire Spottiswoode
2000
Copyright © in photographs: as listed on page 135 in
book;
online images: Callan Cohen and Claire Spottiswoode unless
otherwise specified
Copyright © in regional maps: Struik Publishers (Pty)
Ltd 2000
Copyright © in site maps: 2000
Copyright © in the published edition: Struik Publishers
(Pty) Ltd 2000
Published by
Struik Publishers (Pty) Ltd
(A member of the Struik New Holland Publishing Group)
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First published 2000
Project manager: Pippa Parker
Managing editor: Simon Pooley
Editor: Peter Joyce
Editorial Assistants: Giséle Raad, Sally Woudberg
Designer: Dominic Robson
Cartographers: Elaine Fick, Dominic Robson,
Callan Cohen and Claire Spottiswoode
Picture researcher: Carmen Watts
Reproduction by Hirt & Carter (Pty) Ltd, Cape Town
Printed and bound by CTP Book Printers, Cape Town
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or
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or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the
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Indemnity: The authors and publisher of this book accept no
responsibility for any loss, injury or death sustained in
this region while using this book as a guide.
ISBN: 1 86872 524 3
Authors Acknowledgements:
We are most grateful for years of encouragement and shared
birding expertise from numerous friends, especially John Graham,
Marc and Diane Herremans, Jonathan and Sherran Rossouw, Peter
Ryan, Peter Steyn and David Winter, as well as David Allan,
Tim Boucher, Jeff Cohen, Gruff Dodd, Morné du Plessis,
Mike Fraser, Phil Hockey, Jan Hofmeyr, Rob Leslie, Geoff Lockwood,
Kirsten Louw, Liz McMahon, Sue Maré, Giselle Murison,
Ian Sinclair, Mel Tripp, Les Underhill, Phil Whittington,
and all at the Cape Bird Club and Percy FitzPatrick Institute
of African Ornithology. We are also grateful to our parents,
Mark and Alice Cohen, and Christopher and Cécile Spottiswoode,
for their support and encouragement of our early interest.
We are extremely grateful to Barrie Rose for generously contributing
the pelagic table on p.35, and, for their years of pelagic
birding assistance and observations, we would like to thank
Bruce Dyer, Anne Gray and Trevor Hardaker. Numerous people
gave helpful input to certain accounts and commented on the
text: many thanks to Kirsten Louw, Mark Anderson, Mark and
Alice Cohen, Paul Funston, Sharon Hampson (Roberts VII,
proposed new bird names), Barrie Rose, Peter Ryan, Bernard
Swart, Kim Spottiswoode, Ross Wanless, David Wilcove and Sally
Woudberg. We are also very grateful to Marilyn Kennedy-McGregor
and Edward Burn for their generous help, and would like to
thank the Cape Bird Club and BirdLife South Africa for endorsing
the book. Finally, our thanks to all at Struik for their tremendous
help, and especially to Pippa Parker, Simon Pooley, Dominic
Robson and Giséle Raad.
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