Dalton Gibbs

Dalton is a superb birder and dedicated conservationist, who manages Cape Town's Rondevlei Nature Reserve as his day job. He has a deep knowledge of the regions biology and conservation priorities and can give excellent advise on finding endemic birds when you are back on land.

Meidad Goren

Origianlly from Israel, Meidad is a dedicated birder and a member of the 'Save the Albatross Campaign Task Force. He spends many weeks at sea educating and ensuring compliance with albatross-conservation regulations amongst the country's longlining fleet, and has racked up the best 'rare' pelagic seabird list for the past two years.

Read Meidad's diaries at www.savethealbatross.net. Read what BBC News and Birdlife International report about Prince Charles meeting Meidad about the Albatross Task Force. For more information about this and other conservation programs Cape Town Pelagics has been supporting, please see our conservation page.

Cliff Dorse

Is one of the leading birders and naturalists in the Cape and has extensive experience in Southern African birding, including a rapidly increasing no of days at sea. His main career is Nature Conservation where he is charged with managing and protecting many of Cape Town's most biodiverse areas.

Bruce Dyer

Bruce is one of SA's longest standing seabird researchers. He is involved in Conservation and monitoring of coastal seabirds.

Alvin Cope

A veteran Cape Town sport fisherman, also hooked on birds. Tremendous experience of Cape pelagic birding.

Barry Rose

One of South Africa's most experienced sea birders with an uncanny ability to spot species. Not called 'Old Snake Eyes' for nothing.

Rob Leslie

A die-hard birder and Fisheries research scientist with over 1000 days at sea, birding all the way.

Phil Hockey

Top birder, Director of Cape Town's Percy Fitzpatrick Institute of African Ornithology, and author of numerous birding books.

Peter Ryan

Seabird researcher at the Percy Fitzpatrick Institute of African Ornithology, highly experienced birder and co-author of a new field guide to the birds of the Afro tropics.

Ian Sinclair

Needs no introduction. Legendary African birder and prolific author of field guides. One of South Africa's most experienced sea birders.