Announcement of a new ADU/SAFRING publication: Review of Ring Recoveries of Birds of Prey in Southern Africa: 1948-1998 by T.B. Oatley, H.D. Oschadleus, R.A. Navarro and L.G. Underhill Published by the Endangered Wildlife Trust, Johannesburg

This report, published in 1998, celebrated some of the results of 50 years of bird ringing in southern Africa. The review examines the data sets for 41 raptor species in the SAFRING databank, including vultures, diurnal raptors and owls. Each species is discussed in a text written by Terry Oatley and most are accompanied by striking ringing-to-recovery maps of three scales for southern African, sub-Saharan Africa and Africa-Eurasia, showing the direction, distance covered and age ringed for selected recoveries.

This special publication, sponsored by the Endangered Wildlife Trust and the John Voelcker Bird Book Fund, was launched at the World Raptor Conference in Gauteng in August 1998.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Secretarybird Sagittarius serpentarius Bearded Vulture Gypaetus barbatus Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus Cape Vulture (Cape Griffon) Gyps coprotheres Whitebacked Vulture Gyps africanus Lappetfaced Vulture Torgos tracheliotus Whiteheaded Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis Yellowbilled Kite and Black Kite Milvus migrans Blackshouldered Kite Elanus caeruleus Black Eagle (Verreaux's Eagle) Aquila verreauxii Tawny Ealge Aquila rapax Wahlberg's Eagle Aquila wahlbergi African Hawk Eagle Hieraaetus spilogaster Longcrested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus Blackbreasted Snake Eagle Circaetus pectoralis Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus African Fish Eagle Haliaeetus vocifer Steppe Buzzard Buteo buteo Forest Buzzard Buteo trizonatus Jackal Buzzard Buteo rufofuscus Augur Buzzard Buteo augur Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus Black Sparrowhawk Accipiter melanoleucus Little Banded Goshawk (Shikra) Accipiter badius Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar Pale Chanting Goshawk Melierax canorus Dark Chanting Goshawk Melierax metabates African Marsh Harrier Circus ranivorus Gymnogene Polyboroides typus Osprey Pandion haliaetus Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus Rock Kestrel Falco tinnunculus Greater Kestrel Falco rupicoloides Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni Barn Owl Tyto alba Pearlspotted Owl Glaucidium perlatum Spotted Eagle Owl Bubo africanus

Steppe Buzzard by Duncan Butchart Artwork from The Atlas of Southern African Birds