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    Ornithological Observations has new papers; there is one on "shadow-boxing"

    After a bit of a gap in publication due to an accident involving the editor, there is a string of new papers in the ejournal Ornithological Observations (OO), http://oo.adu.org.za/'. The most important is by Joël Roerig, and it is a review of "shadow boxing" in birds --- the term "shadow...
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    Review of "shadow boxing" (ie birds attacking reflections)

    There is a great new paper in the ejournal Ornithological Observations (OO), http://oo.adu.org.za/ --- It is by Joël Roerig, and it is a review of "shadow boxing" in birds --- the term "shadow boxing" has been used since 1916 to describe birds attacking, pecking, and flying at their reflections...
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    April Aliens --- the Common Myna continues its march across southern Africa

    During April, the Animal Demography Unit will have a series of news items under the banner "April Aliens" --- the full set will be on the ADU website (http://adu.org.za) and the Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/animal.demography.unit) --- each news item will carry the "aliens ahead" logo...
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    April Aliens --- the Common Myna continues its march across southern Africa

    During April, the Animal Demography Unit will have a series of news items under the banner "April Aliens" --- the full set will be on the ADU website (http://adu.org.za) and the Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/animal.demography.unit) --- each news item will carry the "aliens ahead" logo...
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    Why should an eagle mob a leopard?

    This is the first paragraph of the newest paper in the ejournal Ornithological Observations. On 1 August 2012 whilst observing a pair of Verreaux’s Eagles Aquila verreauxii in the Cederberg Mountains I noted an unusually short and repetitive dive being performed at first by one of the pair of...
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    SABAP1 vs SABAP2 comparisons for seven species

    The Second Southern African Bird Atlas Project has been on the go for 5.5 years. We discovered "slideshare.net" a few weeks ago --- this has enabled us to share powerpoint presentations in a way that we did not know was possible! --- This short presentation shows how the distributions of seven...
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    How to make 2.5 billion termites disappear? A case for protecting the Amur Falcon

    What impact does the recently reported hunting of Amur Falcons in India have on South Africa? The original news item, written by Conservation India, has the title "Shocking Amur Falcon massacre in Nagaland." Shashank Dalvi and Ramki Sreenivasan, who authored the report, summarize it as follows...
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    Annual progress with the bird atlas project in South Africa

    SABAP2, the Second Southern African Bird Atlas Project, is the most important bird conservation research project in southern Africa. If you don't know the distributions of birds, and how they are changing, you cannot do conservation intelligently and effectively. This slideshow demonstrates how...
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    Visual progress with the Second Southern African Bird Atlas Project

    SABAP2 (http://sabap2.adu.org.za/) is the most important bird conservation research project in southern Africa. If you don't know the distributions of birds, and how they are changing, you cannot do conservation intelligently and effectively. This slideshow demonstrates how the citizen...
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    Clowning crows

    One of the latest papers in the ejournal Ornithological Observations (http://oo.adu.org.za) reports several incidents of a bizarre piece of Pied Crow behaviour --- for example "We came across what appeared to be a Pied Crow hanging upside down from a telephone wire about 20 m from the roadside...
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    Extraordinary range expansion of the White-fronted Bee-eater

    During SABAP2 (Second Southern African Bird Atlas Project), the White-fronted Bee-eater has been recorded in 153 quarter degree grid cells where it was not recorded in SABAP1 --- the range expansion over the past two decades is mainly to the west and the south --- the range-change map is...
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    Entangled Bank Cormorant chick dangles for at least 88 hours before it dies

    Eye-witness accounts of seabird death by entanglement are rare --- mostly it is dead seabirds that are discovered, and it is clear that the cause of death was entanglement --- the Bank Cormorant colony on Robben Island is being kept under regular surveillance was part of a postgraduate project...
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    Best birding reads --- Ornithological Observations

    We have recently published the 63rd paper in the ejournal Ornithological Observations --- OO for short --- the URL for the journal is http://oo.adu.org.za --- there are three volumes, with the first in 2010. Each article is a separate pdf. The pages are in landscape format, so each page neatly...
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    Best birding reads

    We are producing a new e-journal in southern Africa called "Ornithological Observations" --- OO for short --- the website is http://oo.adu.org.za --- the journal now contains more than 60 papers in three volumes, and most of them document fascinating aspects of bird behaviour, breeding...
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    ejournal Ornithological Observations : lots of new articles

    Our ejournal Ornithological Observations publishes interesting observations about birds : most of these are going to need to be cited in the next edition of Roberts! So far 58 papers have been published, so they cover a broad spectrum of interests. Go to http://oo.adu.org.za and click on...
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    Entangled Bank Cormorant chick dangles for at least 88 hours before it dies

    Dead seabirds, entangled in discarded fishing line, are frequently encountered. It is not often that birds are found entangled before they are dead. If this happens, they are usually released. One of the latest papers in our ejournal, Ornithological Observations (OO), reports an incident in...
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    MammalMAP: African Mammal Atlas Project

    Have a look at this video on YouTube, which describes the background and objectives of MammalMAP, the African Mammal Atlas Project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy2i75bgHNU&feature=youtu.be MammalMAP has a group of Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/204298239617083/ and a website...
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    Unusual foraging behaviour of Amur Falcons

    This short paper in the new ejournal Ornithological Observations has a link to a video showing the behaviour. The pdf is reached from this URL: http://oo.adu.org.za/content.php?id=43 Unusual foraging behaviour of Amur Falcons. Ornithological Observations 2012 3:50. Published online on...
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    OO = Ornithological Observations : ejournal

    The Animal Demography Unit at the University of Cape Town, together with BirdLife South Africa, publish an ejournal called Ornithological Observations, called OO for short --- it publishes "faunistic notes" --- the interesting observations of breeding, behaviour, range, etc, that don't easily...
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    African Penguins raised on Robben Island head for Namibia

    Three juvenile African Penguins from Robben Island were fitted with satellite tracking devices in June. One has reached Namibia and the other two are heading in that direction. See top item of Latest News on http://adu.org.za, or go to http://penguins.adu.org.za for the full story.
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    Butterfly Virtual Museum reaches 25000 records

    The Virtual Museum for butterflies, a joint project of the Animal Demography Unit (http://adu.org.za) at the University of Cape Town, and LepSoc, the Lepidopterists' Society of Africa, reached 25000 records this evening. Each record consists of 1 to 3 digital images. To see the 25000th record in...
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    Weaver nests as death traps

    Ornithological Observations, an ejournal, has just published a paper reviewing incidents of birds (and a chameleon) becoming trapped in a weaver nests --- the link to the pdf for the paper is at http://oo.adu.org.za/content.php?id=38
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    Black Sparrowhawk lost battle with Egyptian Geese

    Ornithological Observations, an ejournal, has just published a short note describing how a pair of Egyptian Geese killed a Black Sparrowhawk --- the link to the pdf for the paper is at http://oo.adu.org.za/content.php?id=39
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    Abdim's Stork abdicates

    The new atlas in South Africa shows that Abdim's Stork is in bad shape: http://sabap2.adu.org.za/news.php?id=2781 RED and ORANGE represent decreases. 86% of grid cells show decreases
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    24000 records in Virtual Museum for butterflies

    The 24000th photographic record was submitted to the Animal Demography Unit's "virtual museum" for butterflies yesterday. These digital images are part of a 360 000 record database of butterflies from South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. You can get species lists of butterflies out of the...
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