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Promerops 290.Cdr PO BOX 2113 CLAREINCH 7740 Website : www.capebirdclub.org.za TEL: 021 559 0726 E-mail : [email protected] THE CAPE BIRD CLUB IS THE WESTERN CAPE BRANCH OF BIRDLIFE SOUTH AFRICA Members requiring information should NOTICE TO note the following telephone numbers : CONTRIBUTORS Hon. President Peter Steyn 021 674 3332 Promerops, the magazine of the Cape Bird Club, is published four times a COMMITTEE MEMBERS: year. It is meant to be by all the Chairman Vernon Head 076 569 1389 members, for all the members. So it Vice-Chairman, Club is YOUR magazine to use. Many Meetings, Junior Club Heather Howell 021 788 1574 members submitted interesting items Treasurer Julian Hare 021 686 8437 for this issue ofPromerops and the Hon. Secretary Helen Fenwick 082 705 1536 editors convey their sincere thanks to Conservation Dave Whitelaw 021 671 3714 all concerned. Fundraising, Functions Anne Gray 021 713 1231 Courses Priscilla Beeton 021 789 0382 Contributions are invited from Camps Charles Saunders 021 797 5710 members in English or Afrikaans on birdwatching, bird sightings, bird New Member Mike Saunders 021 783 5230 observations, news, views, projects, New Member Mervyn Wetmore 021 683 1809 etc., particularly in the southwestern Cape. The abbreviations to use are: OTHER OFFICE BEARERS: Roberts’ Birds of Southern Africa (2005) Information Sylvia Ledgard 021 559 0726 - Roberts’ 7 Membership Secretary Joan Ackroyd 021 530 4435 Promerops Otto Schmidt 021 674 2381 Atlas of the Birds of the Promerops, CBC e-mail Jo Hobbs 021 981 1275 Southwestern Cape (Hockey et al. 1989) - SW Cape Bird Atlas. Scientific, Rarities Callan Cohen 083 256 0491 SABAP coordinator Peter Nupen 083 407 4362 English names should be those used in Education Frank Wygold 083 338 9319 Roberts’ 7, Afrikaans names as in CBC webmaster Gavin Lawson 021 705 5224 Roberts’ 6. Receipt of contributions Book sales Gavin & Anne Greig 021 794 7791 will generally not be acknowledged Slide library Jan Hofmeyr 021 686 3047 and they may or may not be used at the CBC Shop Des & Mary Frylinck 021 761 7244 sole discretion of the editors. Deadline for August issue - 7 June 2012 Promerops contributions may be sent by e-mail to [email protected] or [email protected] or fax to (021) 981-1275 or by post to PO Box 8, Brackenfell, 7561 EDITING & PRODUCTION : Otto Schmidtl Jo Hobbs Front cover: Keith Lyle joined the Cape Bird Club last year and plans to combine his interests in photography and birds. His third visit to the hide at Intaka Island resulted in this spectacular image of a Malachite Kingfisher and its fish. Photo: Keith Lyle May 2012 2 PROMEROPS 290 EDITORIAL wo new members, Mike Saunders and months. Even more recently, the Little Crake TMervyn Whetmore, joined the club's at Clovelly has generated phenomenal main committee at the March AGM. I hope they interest. Atlasing in the far-flung corners of the enjoy the challenge of becoming more closely Western Cape has also produced resident species involved in the club's activities and wish them generally only expected in areas far west of us as both a very productive spell in the “engine- Mel Tripp'sreport on a journey to the Murraysburg room”. area reveals. The past few months have seen Cape Town The balance of the magazine normally experience a very hot and dry summer, whilst comprises a selection of observations received many of the other parts of the country are lush and from our members, but, despite the many birding green. These conditions appear to have brought activities reported on the nets, we have received the rarities out in some numbers and birders have very few accounts for this issue. We have had numerous “specials” on offer, some close by however had a number of articles related to and others farther afield. As I write this, a number garden birding, and this will be our main focus in of happy Cape Town birders are returning home this copy. Do remember, however, that we rely from viewing the Western Cape's first Sooty Falcon on your contributions to keep up the expected in Plettenberg Bay, whilst one of our more standard of our magazine, so please let us have uncommon waders, a Pectoral Sandpiper, has any observations which you think would be of been on display for everyone who has called at the interest to other members. Strandfontein Sewage Works for the last couple of Otto Schmidt thought that is. Emmanuel Kant, the famous, AGM REPORTS rationalist philosopher, in his great manual of aesthetics,The Critique of Judgment , concluded CHAIRMAN'S REPORT that there is something most powerful about the February 2011 until March 2012 pull of Nature's sounds: “they are wild, irregular, bold, shocking, and able to take us somewhere far No Earth, for us, without birdsong beyond our merely human arts”.(3) And so we If the voice of a bird is not heard as message but hear in birdsong a connection for ourselves and rather as art, interesting things start to happen: we behold a profound realization: while birds are Nature is no longer an alien enigma, but instead communicating with each other they are also something immediately beautiful, immediately inadvertently communicating with us too. accessible - an exuberant opus with space for us to join in. Bird melodies have always been called songs for a reason. As long as we have been listening, people have presumed that there is music coming out of those scissoring beaks. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's pet starling inspired a piano concerto; Vivaldi developed a theme and musical structure from the call of the finch. Beethoven's famous Sixth Symphony, the Pastoral, was derived from the sounds of a wilderness filled with birds.(1) The careful, thorough ear of Charles Darwin tells us that birds sing for specific territorial and sexual purposes. “Science explains clearly that birds sing to attract mates, to prove their genetic fitness with exhausting displays of virtuosity, or to defend their territory with angry sounds.”(2) But perhaps, just maybe, they also sing because they Otto Schmidt absolutely love to - what a wonderful, fertile An Agulhas Long-billed Lark in full song 3 May 2012 PROMEROPS 290 Chairman’s report cont. Birdsong is of course synonymous with birds. It defines them as surely as feathers do and it shapes them in our intimate relationship with them. There can be no cuckoo-clock without the cuckoo-call. There can be no dawn without the chorus of birds. There can be no lake without the quack of ducks, there can be no beachfront without the laughter of gulls, there can be no field without thetseep of pipits, there can be no town without thekraak of the crow. And there will be no Africa without the high cry of the fish-eagle. There Otto Schmidt will be no Earth, for us, without birdsong. The Large-billed Lark is another happy songster With this understanding, birdwatching must also be the act ofnot watching birds - it must be Today we are consumed by the vast the act of listening too. Who could ever forget interconnectivity of the World Wide Web and the following a strange, mysterious sound and finally phenomenon of WikiLeaks, Wikipedia, webcams putting the image of a new bird to it? Who could and GoogleEarth. Emails flutter digitally across ever forget the powerful connection of that simple cyberspace in a constant barrage of information communication? Who could not be thrilled and and a new, dizzying dialogue within the club has moved by that an act of discovery and an audible become steeped in the fecundity of techno- celebration of birding? speak. Facebook, YouTube and Twitter twitter uncontrollably and everybody is connected to On a very fundamental level birds have everybody else, all the time. The very nature and summoned us all. They have brought us together essence of the interactions within our club have with their calls. They have drawn us enquiringly, changed forever and they continue to change as a group, into Nature. Some people listen to every day as more people discover the internet. birds privately, but we listen in shared analysis, in Our reminder-service, run so ably byJo Hobbs , shared debate and in shared wonder. For us the allows us to make last minute changes to vibrant sounds of birdsong have ultimately made programmes where previously this would have us into a community of birders: a bird club. And as been impossible and our members are now a birds continue to communicate with us, so we mere press-of-the-send-button away. Our communicate with each other and so our club website, managed so professionally by our thrives and evolves. webmasterGavin Lawson , talks to birders across The new world of cyberbirding the planet in web-pages and web-links and We live in a new age of communication. The time general web-ness of every kind, as if these people of smoke signals, tribal drums and carrier-pigeons were sitting right here, right now.Capebirdnet is is a distant memory,the facsimile is redundant and there to greet us with our morning coffee (or tea), the hand-written letter hints of obsoleteness. No our keyboards sing “sararebirdalerts” as photos of longer is the Cape Bird Club held together by just vagrant species flash onto our screens calling lectures, guided outings andPromerops news. twitchers to the chase. Today our inter-relationships are very different, The precision with which information is very much more dynamic and very far-reaching. captured and the speed at which it is shared has rapidly redefined both birding and the science of ornithology too.
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