Ringing - contacts

The Biodiversity and Development Institute is a non-profit company registered with The CIPC of South Africa, Reg: 2015/136344/08

Directors: Prof Les G. Underhill, Jorn Das, Sue Gie

Address: 25 Old Farm Road, Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, director[at]thebdi[dot]org +27 74 528 8664

Bird Ringing / Bird Banding Team Leader: Dr Dieter Oschadleus doschadleus[at]gmail[dot]com +27 83 285 6889

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Open Day for bird ringing : Grotto Bay 24 August 2024
26/06/2024
The BDI is holding an Open Day for bird ringing on Saturday, 24 August 2024. We are hosted by the Grotto Bay Private Nature Reserve. The reserve has an area of 385 ha, and the vegetation consists of Strandveld and Sandveld. It is about 60 km north of Cape Town, turning off the R27. We meet at the Conservation Centre within the reserve. One of our […]
Bird ringing course at New Holme, Hanover, 9 to 15 September 2024
20/06/2024
One of the privileges of being a bird ringer is the opportunity to see birds up close. The opportunity to see the detail of the feathers, the colour of the eye, and the complex patterns in it, and the opportunity to grasp the reality that you don’t want to be an insect when that weapon is on the hunt for food! Bird ringers have made a vast […]
Bird ringing at Botuin : 2 to 5 June 2024
06/06/2024
A group of BDI people went bird ringing at Botuin, Vanrhynsdorp, from Sunday 2 June to Wednesday 5 June. The aim was to keep a consistent pattern of ringing going at this site, so we firstly build up the proportion of birds which are ringed, so that retraps become more frequent. With lots of retraps, we can start making estimates of annual […]
Bird ringing course at Ouberg : 1 to 7 May 2024
10/05/2024
The BDI hosted the eighth bird ringing course from 1 to 7 May. this time at Ouberg Private Nature Reserve in the Klein Karoo, north of Montagu. This was the first visit here since the RAVE in December 2023 (see list of previous ringing events here). A highlight of this trip was the opening of the new campsite. The camp consists of four permanent […]
Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
04/04/2024
Cover image: Ruddy Turnstone by John and Anne Todd, 9 April, at St Helena Bay in the Western Cape, South Africa. Most of the turnstones in this photograph are almost in complete breeding plumage and will leave soon on migration to Siberia (BirdPix 164625). The two birds at the left hand end of the group are juveniles, and will remain behind. See […]

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