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  1. Spring body condition, moult status, diet and behaviour of white-faced whistling ducks (<em>Dendrocygna viduata</em>) in northern South Africa

    Spring body condition, moult status, diet and behaviour of white-faced whistling ducks (Dendrocygna viduata) in northern South Africa

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Scott A. Petrie --- Centre for Water in the Environment, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
    Many white-faced whistling ducks (Dendrocygna viduata) have responded to European colonization by overwintering on irrigation and stock-watering ponds in the semi-arid interior of South Africa. I studied the body condition, diet, behaviour and moult intensity of whitefaced whistling ducks prior...
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  2. Counting waterbirds on holiday: a snapshot for one Eastern Cape estuary

    Counting waterbirds on holiday: a snapshot for one Eastern Cape estuary

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: RLG Mullins --- , South Africa AJFK Craig --- , South Africa
    Over a ten-year period, each December the same observer counted waterbirds on the same stretch of the Kariega River in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. The site surveyed is dominated by waders, with variable numbers of other feeding guilds. Piscivorous...
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