Ostrich – Best student paper

BirdLife South Africa will be offering the best 2018 student paper published in Ostrich a complementary membership to BirdLife South Africa. This includes 6 issues of African Birdlife magazine. 

To qualify, on submission it will need to be indicated whether the first author is/was a student in an Honours, Masters, or Doctorate program. 

“The best papers will be decided by a panel of associate editors and Ostrich advisors. We will take into account relevance to African ornithology and ornithology more widely; quality of research including design, analysis and writing; as well as impact (as indicated by article views and Altmetric score adjusted for time online),” noted the Editor of the Journal, Dr Alan Lee. 

The successful student will be notified in January 2019. 

Instructions for authors for this title can be found here. 

Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology is Africa’s leading ornithological international journal published by NISC in association with BirdLife South Africa and Taylor & Francis. 

The journal publishes peer-reviewed original scientific papers. Studies of the behaviour, biology, breeding, ecology, migrations and movements, and systematics of birds are welcome.

Read more about the journal here.