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News Articles in Africa Birds
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Below is a
list of articles authored or co-authored by Callan Cohen. For
more information see the Africa Birds and Birding Archive |
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The Niven Library's
online public access catalogue lists all publications by
Fitz staff and students. Reprints
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Staff,
Students & Associates
Doctoral Students
Cape Town-born
Callan Cohen has spent much of his life travelling to the
remotest parts of Africa in search of birds, and is based at the
Percy FitzPatrick Institute of Ornithology at the University of
Cape Town as a PhD student, investigating the systematics and
biogeography of the bustard family and avian evolutionary
patterns across Africa’s arid zones.
He obtained his BSc with distinction from the University of Cape
Town, majoring in Zoology, Botany and Applied Maths. In his BSc
(Honours) year he studied hybridisation in desert larks and
ecological patterns among relictual plant species in the Cape
Floral Kingdom.
He has contributed to several books (including The Atlas of
Southern African Birds, The Red Data Book of Birds of
South Africa and Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa 7th
edition) and popular and scientific journals. Together with
Claire Spottiswoode, he has authored a birding guide to the
areas from Cape Town to the Kalahari (Essential Birding -
Western South Africa, Struik Publishers, 2000, see
www.capebirdingroute.org
for more information) and they've recently finished expanding
this concept for the Southern African Birdfinder, a new book on
where to watch birds in the southern third of Africa and
Madagascar.
Callan is the director of Birding Africa, a group of biologists,
bird book authors and conservationists who are drawn together by
a common passion: sharing their enthusiasm for Africa’s birds
with others. Since 1997, they have been leading birding tours
around their home town of Cape Town and further into Africa for
top international tour companies and small groups (see
www.birdingafrica.com). Callan has acted as a
consultant for the BBC Natural History Unit, is a past chairman
of the Cape Bird Club, Africa’s largest bird club, and the
current chairman of the Western Cape Rarities Committee.
Callan enjoys hiking and is a dedicated natural historian with a
passion for all things natural, notably mammals, frogs,
reptiles, and the plants of the Cape Floral Kingdom and Karoo
semi-desert.
Thesis
The evolution of the
bustards: implications for African biogeography, evolution of
display and conservation (Supervisor: Tim Crowe)
Publications Mills, M. S. L. & Cohen, C.
2007 Brazza’s Martin Phedina brazzae: new information
on range and vocalisations. Ostrich 78:51-54. Anderson, S. &
Cohen, C. 2005. The western Cape: an ‘essential birding’
destination. BirdLife South Africa News, April/May: 6-8 &
Africa Birds and Birding 10(2):76-78. Anderson, S. &
Cohen, C. 2005. The western Cape: an ‘essential birding’
destination, part 2. BirdLife South Africa News, June/July: 6-7
& Africa Birds and Birding 10(3):76-77.
Ebrahim, I., Von Witt, C. & Cohen,
C. 2005. Peacocks, ploughs and porcupines: the plight of the
peacock moraeas. Veld & Flora 91:185-187. Cohen, C., Spottiswoode, C., Mills,
M. & Murison, G. 2005. Kirsten Louw: 20 February 1979 – 12 May
2005 Promerops 263:4-5.
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2010/02/02
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