Fynbos Estate expedition, 3-12 December 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 we...
Category: Paardeberg
Colour ringing birds at Fynbos Estate
Bird ringing was conducted at Fynbos Estate from 17-21 June 2019, with two students from France, as part of their field project. During the ringing sessions Emi...
Ringing at Sonop farm, Paardeberg
Paardeberg Inselberg is surrounded by vineyards and farms, but patches of fynbos, trees, farm dams, homestead gardens provide varied habitat and good diversity ...
Establishing a long-term bird ringing site. Part 2: some birds
Part 1 of this series described the bird ringing site at Fynbos Estate. This property, partly wine farm and partly nature reserve, is in the northwestern corner...
Establishing a long-term bird ringing site. Part 1: the place
Bird ringers in Europe and bird banders in North America will both be familiar with the concept of a “bird observatory”. The concept even has an art...
Paardeberg site report – 2018/04/07
By Les Underhill. Photo credits: Les Underhill & Dieter Oschadleus Team BDI explored the northwest corner of the Paardeberg on Saturday 7 April 2018. We vis...
Bird ringing report – Paardeberg 2018/03/28
Cape robin-chat – Virtual Museum record Report by Dieter Oschadleus The Paardeberg stands out as a mountainous island in an agricultural landscape between...