Qualifications and experience
Donella completed her B Sc degree majoring in Zoology and Microbiology/Plant Pathology at Pietermaritzburg University
in 1974. She then moved to the University of Cape Town for an Honours degree in Zoology and Higher Diploma in Education.
After teaching Biology for a year at Ixopo High School she returned to UCT to do her M Sc in Zoology (Fluctuations
in populations and habitat use within a changing environment), spending many hours at Rondevlei Bird Sanctuary.
After another year of teaching Biology at Pinelands High School, Donella was at home supporting her husband in Parish
ministry and caring for three children until 1994, when she started working part-time as a Research Assistant in the
Zoology Department at UCT. In October 1997 she started coordinating the Coordinated Avifaunal Roadcounts (CAR) Project
at the ADU, also part-time. These roadcounts of many threatened species are conducted by farmers, bird club members,
nature conservationists and some schools. Having grown up in the country with an interest in conservation ecology and
birds, Donella particularly enjoys the contact with people who share this interest in gathering information about large
birds on farms.
Publications
- Young D.J. 2005. Tracking changes by CAR (Coordinated Avifaunal Roadcounts) – Counting to conservation. Proceedings of the 16th South African Crane Working Group Workshop, 9-12 May 2005, Sterkfontein Dam: 88-102.
- Banks M.A., Bellinger R. & Young D.J. 2005. Blue Crane Population Genetics Proposal – What 'story' will the genes and genetic diversity reveal. Proceedings of the 16th South African Crane Working Group Workshop 9-12 May 2005 Sterkfontein Dam: 94-96.
- Young D. Autumn 2005. White Storks and CAR counts. The Kite 67.
- Young D. May 2005. CAR count. Promerops 262:9.
- Young D.J. 2004. Coordinated Avifaunal Roadcounts (CAR) Project tracks the changes. KZN Birds 9: 15-16.
- Young D.J. October 2004. Big birds on farms - CAR project tracks the changes. The Northern Natal Farmer: 8.
- Young D.J., Harrison J.A., Navarro R.A., Anderson M.D. & Colahan B.D. (eds) 2003. Big Birds on Farms: Mazda CAR Report 1993-2001. Avian Demography Unit, Cape Town. 205p.
- Young D.J. 2003. Ten years of counting cranes in the Overberg! Promerops 256:9-10.
- Young D.J. 2003. CAR project tracks the changes. Promerops 256:7-9.
- Young D.J. 2002. Ringing, recovery and release – an owlet’s success story Bird Numbers 11(2):31-32.
- Young D.J. 2002. Co-ordinated Avifaunal Roadcounts. Crane Link 11:9-11.
- Harrison, J.A., Underhill, L.G., Young, D.J. & Anderson, M. 2001. Report on the SACWG National Crane Census (NCC). Proceedings of the 12th South African Working Group Workshop, 22-23 November 2000:56-61.
- Young D.J. & Harrison, J.A. 2001. The CAR technique for censusing cranes. Proceedings of the 12th South African Working Group Workshop, 22-23 November 2000:62-72.
- Young D.J. & Harrison, J.A. 2001. Population monitoring results for the Blue Crane, Anthropoides paradiseus, from Coordinated Avifaunal Roadcounts(CAR). Appendix 7 In: McCann, K., Morrison, K., Byers, A., Miller, P., & Friedmann, Y. (eds). Blue crane (Anthropoides
paradiseus). A Population and Habitat Viability Assessment Workshop. Final Workshop Report. Conservation Breeding Specialist Group
(SSC/IUCN), Apple Valley, MN.
- Young D.J. & Harrison, J.A. 2000. Blue Crane monitoring: trends begin to emerge Bird Numbers 9(2): 17-20.
- Young D.J. 1999. Co-ordinated Avifaunal Roadcounts. Crane Link 5: 15-16.
- Young D.J. 1998. Coordinated Avifaunal Roadcounts(CAR). Crane Link 4: 10-11.
- Allan, D. and Young, D.J.. 1998. CAR in the Western Cape - the fruits begin to ripen. Bird Numbers 7(2): 19-21.
- Young D.J. 1998. Coordinated avifaunal roadcounts (CAR) Bird Numbers 7(1): 6.
- Young D.J. 1998. Investigative Studies 5.1 CAR - Coordinated Avifaunal Roadcounts. Proceedings of South African Crane Working Group and Eskom/EWT National Crane Conservation Project Workshop, Ladybrand, 12th-13th May 1998:12-13.
- Allan, D.G., Young, D., Underhill, L.G., Williams A.J.1996 Application for Ramsar status for Rietvlei wetland reserve, western Cape Province, South Africa. ADU Research Report no 16.
- Brown, A.C., Davies, K.C., Young, D. 1982. Effects of Cadmium and Zinc on oxygen uptake in the whelk Bullia digitalis (Dillwyn). Trans.Roy.Soc.S.Afr. 44:551-554.
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