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BIRD NUMBERS

The newsletter of the Avian Demography Unit

Volume 11(2), December 2002

    © Avian Demography Unit 2001

BIRD NUMBERS is published by the AVIAN DEMOGRAPHY UNIT (ADU), Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa. It is distributed free of charge to ADU project participants.

The ADU is a research unit of the University of Cape Town and enjoys the partnership of BirdLife South Africa.

The mission of the Avian Demography Unit is to contribute to the improved understanding of bird populations, especially bird population dynamics, and thus make a contribution to their conservation. We achieve this through mass-participation projects, long-term monitoring, innovative statistical modelling and population-level interpretation of results. The emphasis is on the curation, analysis, publication and dissemination of data.

Editor: James A. Harrison
Technical editing and layout/DTP: Felicia Stoch

Contents*

  1. Editorial
  2. Catastrophic Cholera: coverage, causes, context, conservation and concern
  3. Effect of a storm on breeding African Penguins Spheniscus demersus at Foxy Beach, Boulders Penguin Colony, Simon’s Town
  4. Island oddballs: penguins of dubious parentage
  5. Learned survival behaviour of a rehabilitated African Penguin
  6. Frog Atlas Project – just a few more hops before the big splash
  7. Agent Paddaman and his Mazda Paddamobile – licensed to act suspiciously
  8. Crowned Crane Balearica regulorum
  9. Multiple nest use by the Laughing Dove Streptopelia senegalensis
  10. First record of Striped Cuckoo Clamator levaillantil parasitizing Pied Babbler Turdoides bicolor
  11. Ringing, recovery and release – an owlet’s success story
  12. A summer in Medusa Bay
  13. Unusual behaviour of Cape Sugarbirds
  14. Carnivorous Hornbills
  15. Parental behaviour of Swift Terns at Robben Island
  16. High-tech birding
  17. A survey of road-kills, with special emphasis on birds
  18. Coastal breeding site of Blue Crane Anthropoides paradiseus
  19. Chirps from the past
  20. Birds in culture (doves)
  21. Publications by members of the ADU July – December 2002
* Excepting for the Editorial, all articles are available in PDf format only.

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