Ringing - Bushveld birdlife

The Bushveld site has long-running research projects on three species of hornbills, red-billed hornbill (Tockus rufirostris), southern yellow-billed hornbill (Tockus leucomelas), and grey hornbill (Tockus nasutus), as well as a project on the woodland kingfisher (Halcyon senegalensis). These four species are thus frequently caught and ringed at the site. In addition, the following species have also been caught and ringed at the site previously:

Cape vulture (Gyps coprotheres) (a resighting)
greater kestrel (Falco rupicoloides)
little sparrowhawk (Accipiter minullus)
dark chanting goshawk (Melierax metabates)
pale chanting goshawk (Melierax canorus)
African mourning dove (Streptopelia decipiens)
emerald-spotted wood-dove (Turtur chalcospilos)
red-chested cuckoo (Cuculus solitarius)
Diederik cuckoo (Chrysococcyx caprius)
brown-hooded kingfisher (Halcyon albiventris)
hoopoe (Upupa epops)
red-billed woodhoopoe (Phoeniculus purpureus)
crested barbet (Trachyphonus vaillantii)
arrow-marked babbler (Turdoides jardineii)
dark-capped bulbul (Pycnonotus barbatus)
terrestrial brownbul (Phyllastrephus terrestris)
yellow-bellied bulbul (Chlorocichla flaviventris)
white-browed robin-chat (Cossypha heuglini)
white-throated robin (Cossypha humeralis)
willow warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus)
three-streaked tchagra (Tchagra australis)
grey-headed bush-shrike (Malaconotus blanchoti)
long-tailed starling (Lamprotornis mevesii)
collared sunbird (Anthreptes collaris)
southern masked weaver (Ploceus velatus)
green-winged pytilia (Pytilia melba)
red-billed firefinch (Lagonosticta senegala)
blue waxbill (Uraeginthus angolensis)

Find out more about the expeditions:

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Fynbos expedition:

Bushveld expedition:

Karoo garden ringing, Vanrhynsdorp, January 2020
Jan 27, 2020
Not many gardens boast Karoo specials like European Bee-eater, Namaqua Warbler, and Lark-like Bunting. All these were ringed in a long weekend, as well as many other special species, by Dieter, Salome, Les, Karis and Itxaso. Top numbers ringed by species were Cape Weaver, Cape Sparrow and Southern Masked-Weaver, birds that breed in the garden. A […]
BDInsight January 2020
Jan 26, 2020
Happy New Year and Century! We hope you all had a lovely festive season and that 2020 will be a fantastic year. Why not kick-start the year by joining us at our Citizen Science Conference in the Karoo in February? It is an event not to miss!Come and join the Biodiversity and Development Institute at New Holme Guest Farm (Karoo Gariep Nature […]
Elegant/Sandwich tern hybrid
Dec 25, 2019
O’Connell B. 2019. Elegant/Sandwich tern hybrid – Cape Recife, Port Elizabeth (The French Connection). Biodiversity Observations 10.13:1-5 Biodiversity Observations is an open access electronic journal published by the Animal Demography Unit at the University of Cape Town. This HTML version of this manuscript is hosted by the Biodiversity […]
SAFRING Ringing Report for 2017
Dec 23, 2019
Paijmans DM, Rose S, Oschadleus HD, and Thomson RL. 2019. SAFRING Ringing Report for 2017. Biodiversity Observations 10.11:1-11 Biodiversity Observations is an open access electronic journal published by the Animal Demography Unit at the University of Cape Town. This HTML version of this manuscript is hosted by the Biodiversity and Development […]
Fynbos Estate expedition, 3-12 December 2019
Dec 13, 2019
Following a successful 10 day BDI bird ringing expedition earlier this year, another was held at Fynbos Estate in December. It was hot and windy but the days were long, and the birds plentiful! Marc, Danielle, Salome and Dieter were the main team, joined by Joel for two days. On Saturday we were joined by Loutjie and Leon, and Les with Karis, […]

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