Lanioturdus 42(2) / 2009

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Lanioturdus 42(2) / 2009
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Namibia Bird Club
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THOMSON, N. Editorial
MIDDENDORFF, G. Chairperson’s Report
KOLBERG, H. Of Gale-Force Winds and Balmy Days…Narrative of Twenty Five Days of Bird Counting in the Wild Hinterland of Namibia
THOMSON, N. Ringed Blue Crane Sighting
PATERSON, J. Vagrants, Range Extensions and Interes-ting Bird Records for Skeleton Coast Park, Namibia and Southern Angola
FRIEDERICH G. & T. Early Birds on Tsutsab Vlei
KOLBERG, H. Population Census of Flamingos in Namibia, July 2008
RARITIES AND INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS

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Editorial
Included in this issue is the chairperson’s report as delivered at the Annual General Meeting held on 5 March 2009. In it our chairperson, Gudrun Middendorff, outlines the activities of the Namibia Bird Club over the past year which include outings, talks, attendance of meetings and conferences by committee members and others, the partnership agreement with NEWS (Namibia Environment and Wildlife Society) and the donations and sponsorships given to various causes.
There are a number of birding projects on the go in Namibia and also a number of special interest groups eg. ringers, raptors, cranes and coastal birds. One can then ask what the primary function of the bird club is. We believe that the Namibia Bird Club provides social and educational birding to its members through outings, talks and of course, the publication of Lanioturdus. Morning walks are led by experienced birders who are able to help others develop their bird identification skills and general birding knowledge. It is our hope that members will go on to become involved in other projects where they can use these skills. A number of members have participated in the summer and winter bird counts at Walvis Bay which form part of the African Water Bird Census under the auspices of Wetlands International. The Bird Club has undertaken to contribute to these counts by doing summer and winter counts at Monte Christo. On 1 February 2009 four Bird Club members, Gudrun, Hanjo Böhme, Rolf Adrian and myself assisted by my daughter, Maren, as scribe, counted 335 birds of 34 species at Monte Christo. If there is interest from members and particularly if someone can provide a boat, the Bird Club could make an even bigger contribution to this project by doing counts on other inland waters such as perhaps Hoffnung Dam or Otjivero Dam which are not currently being counted.
Although I only fairly recently formally joined the Namibia Bird Club I have long been of the opinion that if one gets a lot out of birding one should put something back. Over the years I have been involved in data collection for the Atlas of Southern African Birds, various wetland counts, raptor road counts and I now have a ringer’s license. I believe that by participating in these various activities I am putting something back into birding and I hope that others will also follow this path.
Tim Osborne resigned from the committee before the AGM (after resigning as editor of Lanioturdus some months ago) and Suzan Mallet-Veale has stood down from active involvement. We now welcome two new committee members in Holger Kolberg and Richard Niddrie.