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Point counts outperform line transects when sampling birds along routes in South African protected areas
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Graeme S Cumming --- ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, Australia Dominic AW Henry --- FitzPatrick Institute, South AfricaBird atlases have become an important source of distribution data for broad-scale analyses in ecology, biogeography and conservation. However, national bird atlases are undertaken in different ways in different countries, usually with little formal assessment of alternatives. Existing research suggests... -
BirdLasser: The influence of a mobile app on a citizen science project
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Alan Tristram Kenneth Lee --- , South Africa Henk Nel --- , South AfricaIn recent decades, people across the world have adopted ‘smart-phones’ and their technology. Software applications on these devices have become diverse in their functionality and easy to use. Citizen science projects that try to mobilise data collection from people from... -
Anton Reichenow and the birds of Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Adrian JFK Craig --- Rhodes University, South AfricaThe first handbook of the birds of Africa was completed in 1905 by Anton Reichenow (1847–1941). Based in the Berlin museum for almost 50 years, he described 152 African taxa that are still recognised as valid species today, and was... -
Local knowledge and uses of the Senegal Parrot Poicephalus senegalus in northern Benin
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Hermann Cyr Toni --- Université Nationale d’Agriculture, Benin Ayékotchami Jacques Dossou --- Université Nationale d’Agriculture, Benin Mèvognon Pacôme Mama --- Université Nationale d’Agriculture, Benin Christel Kenou --- , Benin Agossou Bruno Djossa --- Université Nationale d’Agriculture, BeninHumans rely on several services delivered by biodiversity for their subsistence. Relationships between humans and biodiversity vary among sociocultural groups. Considering the increasing threats on parrot species worldwide, this study assessed local knowledge and uses of the Senegal Parrot Poicephalus...