Sea Birding Pelagic Trips South Africa, Cape Town Pelagics

  

  About Us - Who Are We

 
  Callan Cohen and Claire Spottiswoode
 
Callan Cohen
Claire Spottiswoode
   

Callan and Claire are research students at Cape Town's Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology and birding guides for Birding Africa, a specialist eco tourism company they found in 1997.

They were born in Cape Town and became dedicated birders at a very young age. At ages 21 and 18, they became successively the youngest people to see the landmark 800 species in southern Africa and presently hold the record for the most bird species seen in one day in western South Africa. Callan and Claire have also birded extensively in little-known parts of the African continent.

They have contributed to several books and magazines, authored an innovative bird-finding guide to western South Africa (Essential Birding in Western South Africa - Struik Publishers 2000). They published a second book that expands this concept to the southern third of Africa (The Southern Africa Birdfinder - Struik Publishers 2006).

Callan and Claire both graduated with distinction from the University of Cape Town and are deeply interested in evolutionary biology, respectively specialising in avian systematic's and behavioural ecology.

  
 
  Peter Ryan