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Copyright and Acknowledgements

This book is dedicated to the memory of Julie te Groen (1922–2000), 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)
Cornelis Struik House
80 McKenzie Street
Cape Town, 8001
Reg. No. 1954/000965/07
1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2
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 by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright owners.
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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6 July 09: Cape White-eye research in our garden.

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2 July 09: Campbell Fleming, a Cape Town scholar, avid birder and photographer, joined Birding Africa last month as an intern. Click here, to see what he got up to.

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14 June 09:
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