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Join a community of nature lovers
and birders!
BirdLife Northern Gauteng is one of the most active bird clubs
in Southern Africa, with over 700 members. Not all birders, or
those interested in taking up this wonderful hobby are members.
So we'd like to put forward a few good reasons for joining the
club!
As a member you can :
- Receive our own club magazine called Laniarius which contains
news of birding activities in our area, accounts of members’
birding experiences and reports of projects taking place. It
appears three or four times a year.
- Receive a quarterly programme of events, advising you of
all forthcoming club activities.
- Participate in regular day outings and camps to interesting
and varying localities where experienced birders will help you
gain most from your excursion.
- Attend regular evening meetings at which talks, videos and
slides are presented.
- Join in club activities such as bird ringing, bird monitoring/census
projects, studies on garden birds, migration, distribution, breeding
behaviour and much more.
- Obtain birding requisites such as books, checklists, cards,
tapes, CDs and so on at preferential rates.
- Most importantly, the opportunity to become involved in the
conservation of birds and their habitatBy joining the club, you
are contributing to bird conservation in two ways. Firstly, you
are contributing membership fees which go to a host of worthy
research and conservation projects, and secondly you are adding
your voice to the credibility of BirdLife South Africa, as a
body which can campaign to government and business for the protection
of our birds.
- If you want to get really involved, you can take up bird-ringing.
- The club recently launch a new project called PCC/BiG
electronic bird monitoring, which give members the opportunity
to visit less accessible areas while gatthering valuable data
at the same time.
The BirdLife website provide the facility for electronic application to membership of BLNG
and BirdLife
Membership of BirdLife
South Africa
Membership of a Branch means that you are a member of BirdLife
South Africa. Your Branch looks after local matters and organises
lectures, field outings and other excursions. The central office
looks after administrative, national and international matters.
As a member of BirdLife you are entitled to attend activities
organised by BirdLife, and support the work that is being done
for the conservation of birds and their environment. Information
about BirdLife and its activities appears in the last eight pages
of Africa Birds & Birding. |
