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Resolving spurfowl taxonomy
A Fitz team recently published a paper in the African journal of ornithology Ostrich titled ‘Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of African spurfowls: Galliformes, Phasianidae, Phasianinae, Coturnicini: Pternistis spp.’
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Plastic poses a major environmental threat: but is it being over-stated?
Prof Peter Ryan has written a piece in to try and place the plastic pollution frenzy in context.
Read the article in The Conservation here ...
Volunteer field assistant, Hot Birds Project
We are looking for a field volunteer to assist with data collection on Southern Yellow-billed Hornbills in the Kuruman River Reserve.
Full details here ...
African Birdlife
We have a regular feature in African Birdlife - The FitzPatrick Report. 'Annual Reporting' (Vol 7 (5) Jul/Aug 2019) Prof. Peter Ryan introduces our 2018 Annual Report.
Download this and other Fitz-authored articles in the latest issue of African Birdlife here ...
2018 Annual report now available
The 2018 FitzPatrick Institute Annual Report was approved by the Advisory Board at the AGM held on Thursday, 2 May.
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*Funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) through the National Research Foundation (NRF)

The Institute would like to thank Jill Adams and particularly Norman Arlott for permission to use their illustrations.

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FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology
University of Cape Town
Private Bag X3
Rondebosch 7701
Cape Town South Africa

Phone: +27 (0)21 650-3291/3297
Fax: +27 (0)21 650-3295
Email: fitz@uct.ac.za