Barberspan ringing and more, 11-22 March 2010
Barberspan ringing conference and more, 11-22 March 2010 A Ringers Conference was held at Barberspan Bird Sanctuary, a reserve of the North West Parks and Touri...
Category: trips
Weaver ringing trip to Limpopo Province, 2-6 Feb 2010
Weaver ringing trip to Limpopo Province, 2-6 Feb 2010 A team of 4 ringers and 2 trainees went on a ringing trip to the Limpopo River; for me to target especiall...
Red-billed Quelea breeding in the Worcester area, April 2009
Red-billed Quelea breeding in the Worcester area, Western Cape Introduction The Red-billed Quelea (hereafter quelea) has not occurred in the Western Cape...
Weaver ringing trip to the bushveld, 20-28 Feb 2009
Weaver ringing trip to the bushveld, 20-28 Feb 2009 A team of 5 ringers went on a ringing trip to the bushveld; for me to target some specific weavers and for t...
PAOC Conference at Goudini Spa, 7-12 Sep 2008
PAOC Conference at Goudini Spa, 7-12 Sep 2008 The 12th Pan African Ornithological Congress, was held on 7-12 September 2008 at Goudini Spa For the first time at...
Lubango, Angola, to catalogue specimens, 6-23 June 2008
Trip to Lubango, Angola, to catalogue specimens, 6-23 June 2008 The bird collection housed in Lubango, southern Angola, contains more than 41000 skins of more t...
Weaver ringing trip to KwaZulu-Natal, Jan 2008
Weaver ringing trip to KwaZulu-Natal, Jan 2008 SAFRING is celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2008. To kick off the year I spent a week in Durban and Pietermari...
Wakkerstroom Bird ringing course, 3-7 January 2005
Wakkerstroom Bird ringing course, 3-7 January 2005 Organised by SAFRING and BirdLife South Africa In January 2005 a ringing training course was held in Wakkerst...
National Bird ringing course, Landela, 11-17 November 2005
SAFRING National Bird ringing course, Landela, 11-17 November 2005 In November 2005 a ringing training course was held at the Landela Christian camp, just outsi...
AEWA/AFRING ringing course, Kenya, 19-26 September 2004
AEWA/AFRING ringing course, Kenya, 19-26 September 2004 Doug Harebottle and Dieter Oschadleus The first international AEWA-Afring Waterbird Ringing Course was h...