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Our South African Birds

Our South African Birds is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Our South African Birds rather than just read about it. In short: Our South African Birds is an album of South African birds published in 1941. Printed in English and Afrikaans, it was issued with spaces for 150 cigarette cards distributed by a consortium of tobacco companies.

Key takeaways

Our South African Birds belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Our South African Birds to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Our South African Birds from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Our South African Birds is an album of South African birds published in 1941. Printed in English and Afrikaans, it was issued with spaces for 150 cigarette cards distributed by a consortium of tobacco companies. A foreword was written by John Voelcker, then president of the South African Ornithological Society, and the album was edited by Austin Roberts. The illustrations were attributed to Norman Lighton although they were clearly copies of the Claude Gibney Finch-Davies plates held by the Transvaal Museum - Finch-Davies was neither credited nor mentioned as he had fallen from grace in the eyes of the Transvaal Museum. The album of 106 pages appeared in quarto size in cream boards and brown cloth spine, with a colour illustration of a broad-tailed paradise-whydah pasted on the front board. A companion volume titled Our South African Flora was published at the same time and was edited by Robert Harold Compton, director of the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town. The printing and design of both albums was done by Cape Times Limited of Cape Town.

References

External links Images of album Media related to Our South African Birds at Wikimedia Commons

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Our South African Birds

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Our South African Birds claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Our South African Birds before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Our South African Birds ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Our South African Birds

In research: Our South African Birds appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Our South African Birds in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Our South African Birds is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Birds of Southern Africa, Cigarette card albums, Ornithology books, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Our South African Birds outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Our South African Birds in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Our South African Birds means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Our South African Birds out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Our South African Birds in simple terms?

Why does Our South African Birds matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Our South African Birds?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Our South African Birds.