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Austin Roberts Bird Sanctuary

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Austin Roberts voëlreservaat, dam en skuiling
Austin Roberts voëlreservaat, dam en skuiling

The Austin Roberts (Memorial) Bird Sanctuary is a 11.76 ha (29.1 acres) nature reserve located in the Walkerspruit Open Space System, in the Nieuw Muckleneuk suburb of Pretoria, South Africa. It became the first bird refuge in Pretoria when it was opened by the then mayor of Pretoria, Mr. W. J. Seymore, on 27 October 1956. It was officially proclaimed as a nature reserve on 26 February 1958, and it was fenced in June 1970.The sanctuary is named after South Africa's well-known ornithologist and mammalogist, J. Austin Roberts. He was born in Pretoria in 1883, but grew up in Potchefstroom as a minister's son, where the local amateur ornithologist, Thomas Ayres, was his mentor.

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Austin Roberts Bird Sanctuary
Melk Street, Pretoria New Muckleneuk

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Melk Street
0145 Pretoria, New Muckleneuk
Gauteng, South Africa
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