R550 - that include the course notes & certificate endorsed by BirdLife South Africa.
- Kindly note that gift vouchers for attendance of the course are now also available: an ideal gift for friends and family members interested in nature in general and birds in particular.
DAY 1: Friday 9 March
(Kindly note that short breaks will be taken on the hour).
- 08h30 to 09h00: Registration
- 09h00 to 10h00: The basic approach to Flight for Birders and what to look for when trying to identify a bird.
- 10h00 to 10h15: Tea
- 10h15 to 11h15: The identification of garden birds
- 11h15 to 12h30: The Art of Deception - A special focus on the brood parasites of southern Africa and their host species.
- 12h30 to 13h00: Lunch
- 13h00 to 14h00: How to prepare when visiting a new birding area: Illustrating the Cape Whale Coast birdfinder web-page.
- 14h00 to 14h30: A focus on birding tourism - the critical role that the Western Cape Province in general and the Overberg region in particular could play in this regard.
- 14h30 to 15h15: How to prepare before visiting a new area.
- 15h15 to 16h00: An overview of some threatened birds in Southern Africa: what are conservation agencies trying to do about the problem through conservation programs and how can ordinary birders help?
1. The Dyer Island Conservation Trust: Working towards saving AFRICAN PENGUINS.
2. BLSA's ALBATROSS Task Force.
3. BirdLife Overberg conservation programs on the Overstrand coastline & estuaries.
DAY 2: Saturday 10 March
- 08h45 to 09h00: Coffee and tea
- 09h00 to 10h15: Those difficult to identify species - the “Little Brown Jobs” of the Western Cape.
- 10h15 to 10h30: Tea
- 10h30 to 11h00: The identification of birds of prey.
- 11h00 to 11h45: The identification of birds of prey (Continued).
- 11h45 to 12h30: A special focus on the Owls of southern Africa.
- 12h30 to 13h00: Lunch
- 13h00 to 14h00: The identification of the fairly common waterbirds in the Western Cape.
- 14h00 to 15h00: Focus on the swallows, swifts & martins of the Western Cape.
- 15h00 to 15h30: The 101 species in southern Africa that every avid birder needs to be able to identify - how to distinguish between the various families of birds. (An open-ended discussion on photographs of the most common birds representing different families of birds).
- 15h30+: Closure
