SAFRING Sponsors

Sponsors of SAFRING and the ADU

Exposure in Africa - Birds & Birding

SAFRING Donations

Make a donation into the SAFRING Trust fund!

Make a donation into the SAFRING Trust fund in memory of a ringer!

SAFRING Volunteer opportunities

• Enter ringing data by species
• Enter ringing data by ring series (esp. G, 5#, 6#)
• Enter ringing data by ringer
• Enter moult data
• Enter SA gazeteer
• Office - ongoing filing
• Office - process recoveries
• Office - develop criteria lists to use in checking data (coordinates, biometrics, species distribution, etc)
• Office - set up museum of old ring types
• Office - design a new SAFRING pamphlet
• Office - recompile duplicate ringer numbers in data tables

SAFRING Volunteers

2002 office volunteers

• Lizzie Turner - filing
• Marjorie Hemp - reorganising recovery files
• Quintin Martins - enter annual ringing totals 1948-1963
• Wally Cox - filing
• Sean Neethling - checking coordinates per country - UCT Vacation Research and Training Programme
• Nosithembele Bali - data entry of 264 Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola - UCT Vacation Research and Training Programme

Entering ringing data by species

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Ringers electronic data

Ringers who have submitted large amounts of electronic data from before 1998

• 263 Jo Johnson - Sep 2002 - 10000 ring and retrap records
• 870 Leshia Upfold - Oct 2002 - 60000 gannet ring records
• 356 Meyrick Bowker - Nov 2002 - 3400 ring records with primary moult