• Cape Town Pelagics
  Weekly day trips to see albatrosses and other great seabirds. All profits donated to seabird conservation
• The Cape Birding Route
  Bird-finding and trip planning information for Western South Africa
• Cape Bird Club
  The Cape Bird Club is the Western Cape Branch of BirdLife, South Africa

• BirdLife South Africa Birding Routes
  Information on birding in South Africa
• African birding resources from the African Bird Club
  Comprehensive birding information on all of Africa's countries
• African Bird Club: ID challenge
  Test your African birding skills... and WIN!
• Niger Bird DataBase, NiBDaB
  Georeferenced and dated observations to promote knowledge and conservation of Niger's birds.

• The Fat Birder One of the major birding portals, a huge birding resource to which Birding Africa has contributed much content
• Surfbirds
  The site dedicated to listers, a portal for birding companies, birding blogs and trip reports
• The Urban Birder
  A niche birding site dedicated to the art of birding in the urban landscape
• Birdguides
  Technology for birders and links, mainly for European birdwatching
• World Twitch
  John Wall's site with up-to-date birding news, book reviews and tons of birding information
• Travelling Birder
  Trip reports and advice
• 10000 Birds
  Birding, nature, conservation, and the wide, wide world. One of the 100 most informative blogs as declared by Carnegie Mellon University in 2007.
• Pittas World
  Chris Gooddie's attempt to see all 32 pitta species in one year, written up in the Jewel-Thrush Diaries Blog and with lots of information, photos and artwork about pittas.
• Guided Birdwatching
  The birding guides index.

• Bird Tour Asia
  Kindred company to Birding Africa, for great birding tours in SE Asia
• Fantasticosur
  Based in Chile and arranging birding, mammal, botany and general nature tours around southern South America and cruises to some priority islands
• Birding.com
  For bird tours and resources in the USA
• Kiwi Wildlife tours
• Australian birding

• African Bird Club
• American Bird Conservancy
• BirdLife International
• Save the Albatross Campaign

Bird Photography

Bird and Wildlife Artists

• Cape Town Green Map
  Charts Cape Town's natural, cultural and sustainable living sites as pasrt of the Green Map movement - a community of over four thousand local green living sites around the world
• Cape Town Organic eating
  Markets, shops, co-ops and restaurants offering organic produce
• Green events
  Talks and workshops about green living
• Ecospecifier
  The first Internet-based green building product-verification tool, known as 'Ecospecifier' and launched in Cape Town.
• How to go green
  Practical and easy ways to protect the environment, based on the SMART Living Handbook
• Green guides
  More ways to increase your awareness and protect the environment, from Urban Sprout, SA Best Green Blog winner.
• Cape Town's Lowlands: threatened species
  Nature in the city, ecosystems
• Indigenous gardening
  What to plant where

Links to biodiversity and natural history around Cape Town

Cape Town

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