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Get PDFThe Faculty of Health Sciences holds an annual Undergraduate Research Day in which undergraduate students from Health and Rehabilitation programmes and from the MBChB programme present their research. Approximately 100 students presented their research in 31 oral and poster presentations at the 2015 annual research day held on 15 October. The event showcases student research conducted as self- initiated research or from course work from undergraduate programmes in the Faculty. It engenders an enthusiasm for enquiry and promotes the importance of formal research. This is in line with UCT's ethos of being a research intensive university and the Faculty's intention of producing professional who are life-long learners and engage in research
The SABAP2 "Four Degrees Blue" project: the challenge to obtain at least 11 checklists in 576 pentads
Get PDF... The Four Degrees Blue challenge was launched on 22 August 2015. At this stage 201 checklists were needed from 111 pentads; the northwest degree cell needed the most checklists, 109, and the southeast degree cell needed only 11. The aim was to have all remaining dark green pentads on the Gauteng coverage map turn to blue with 11 atlas checklists ... the last remaining pentads turned blue on 29 June 2016
Nigeria Bird Atlas Project: How far so far? Progress report August 2016
Get PDFSo far 11 states have been visited during our outings, 70 areas have been covered with 178 cards submitted within 159 pentads. Surveyed areas include sites within and around the Jos Plateau, Lagos, Ibadan, Makurdi, Lafia, Akwanga, Kafanchan, Kagoro, Kwoi, Zonkwa and Bade
Displaying changes in bird distributions between SABAP1 and SABAP2
Get PDFOne of the objectives of the Second Southern African Bird Atlas Project (SABAP2) was to be able to make comparisons with the distribution data collected during the First Southern African Bird Atlas Project (SABAP1); the spatial grid for SABAP2 was set up with a view to facilitating this. Strategies to make these comparisons have proved to be more difficult than were anticipated at the outset of SABAP2 in 2007. The objective of this paper is to document a procedure to construct maps which show the changes in bird distribution patterns between the two projects
Observations on a Secretarybird nest at Langfontein, Petrusburg district, Free State
Get PDFThis note reports on another nest located outside Petrusburg in January 2014 and attempts were made to monitor the nest for several months
At-sea sightings of banded Tristan Albatrosses off the Western Cape and a review of records in southern African waters
Get PDFThe Tristan Albatross (Diomedea dabbenena) became widely recognized as a full species in 1998, when it was spit from the Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans) complex (Robertson and Nunn 1998). The Tristan Albatross is a breeding endemic to Gough and Inaccessible islands. It is listed as Critically Endangered (Birdlife International 2012), due to threats both at-sea, from fisheries bycatch, and on its breeding grounds, where the introduction of alien house mice (Mus musculus) has greatly affected breeding success (Wanless et al. 2009)
Southern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris chalybeus and Malachite Sunbird Nectarinia famosa presence in southern Namibia
Get PDFAn interesting question is what attracts these sunbirds into the harsh and marginal interior away from the more diverse Orange River habitat? A source of regular, albeit limited (in time), nectar in the area is Aloe dichotoma and although they typically flower between April and July, flowers are borne en masse producing copious amounts of nectar
Unique termite gleaning behaviour of the Tacazze Sunbird Nectarinia tacazze
Get PDF... Tacazze Sunbirds were observed foraging on termites. They were seen gleaning the termites off the trunks of trees. The sunbirds were predating on non-alate (non-winged) worker and soldier termites. Gripping the bark with their feet like a wood-hoopoe, the sunbirds followed, from the ground up, the shelter tubes built by the termites, scraping the soil covering away with their bill and eating the termites as they went ..
Vertebrate prey of a Fawn-coloured Lark Calendulauda africanoides
Get PDFThe larks (Alaudidae) are a predominantly Old World family of passerines that inhabit open ground, often in arid or semi-arid regions. There is a lack of basic natural history knowledge for a number of lark species and the diet of the majority of species is simply described as insectivorous, granivorous or mixed. Detailed knowledge of their diet is only known for a handful of species (de Juana et al. 2004). Despite a wide range of invertebrate prey species being recorded in lark diets, feeding on vertebrates is rare. I present the first observation of a Fawn-coloured Lark Calendulauda africanoides predating a vertebrate; constituting the third lark species to prey on vertebrates
Speckled Rock Skink Trachylepis punctatissima predation of Cape White-eye Zosterops virens eggs
Get PDFSpeckled Rock Skink Trachylepis punctatissima predation of Cape White-eye Zosterops virens eggs, with video link