About Indicator BirdingIndicator Birding is a Pretoria Based birding tour operator, specialising in Eastern South Africa, and particulrly in the diversity rich areas of Gauteng and neighbouring North-west, Limpopo and Mpumalanga Provinces. This area is ideal for short visits, or as part of a longer tour, and offers a host of regional endemics and specials.
Founder and owner, Etienne Marais, has 30 years of experience birding the region, and is an adventurous birder, and keen power-birder. The team he established in 1999, together with Graham Deverell and Pete Irons: "Raiders of the Lost Lark" has been the team to beat in South Africa's big birding day.
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Etienne Marais
Former council member of BirdLife South Africa, and active birder for over thirty years experience, Etienne Marais knows the birds of Eastern South Africa intimately. He has led numerous tours across the region and also to Tanzania. Past Chairman of the Pretoria Bird Club, Etienne is a popular leader of club outings due to his ability to show people good birds, and get help birders get good views. In 2001, Etienne and Pete's "Raiders of the Lost Lark" smashed the old Southern African record for species recorded on a Birding Big Day. Over the last seven years, teams led by Etienne Marais have averaged 247 species per 24 hour period.
When not birding, Etienne runs a small web-development company, and is a family man, living in Centurion, Pretoria.
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| Indicator Birding makes use of a number of associate bird-guides |
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