African ibises and spoonbills
The ibis and spoonbill family, Threskiornithidae There are 6 spoonbill species and 29 ibis species globally. They are medium-sized to large wading and terrestri...
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Karoo ringing – New Holme (Hanover)
New Holme guest farm (Karoo Gariep Nature Reserve) lies lies halfway between Cape Town and Johannesburg, just off the N1. Les, Karis and I visited from 10-12 No...
Swallow survey in Cape Town
The SABAP dataset White-throated Swallows and Greater Striped Swallows are common intra-African migrants in South Africa. However, their reporting rates over th...
Transitional widowbirds
Bird ringing in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal From 9-21 October 2019 I helped Rute catch and ring birds in Pietermaritzburg. The project was for studying the ...
Ringing at Klipbokkop, 1-3 October 2019
From 1-3 October some 25 students from Imperial College, London, staying at Klipbokkop, Worcester, South Africa, underwent basic training in bird ringing...
Ringing on Cousin
After the ringing week on Aride Island, Manuel and I spent 1.5 days ringing on Cousin Island. Lesser and Brown Noddies were on top of the list for ringing, whil...
Ringing on Aride
Aride Island in the Seychelles is the northernmost granitic island in the Seychelles. It is a nature reserve managed by the Island Conservation Society (...
Zululand ringing
Three short sessions of ringing in a garden (29-31 July 2019) near Umfolozi River Lodge yielded 77 birds of 22 species. The garden is in a Sappi plantation but ...