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Juggling a "junk-food' diet
The 'Global Change and Urban Birds' research programme is investigating whether Red-winged Starlings are “junk-food dependent” by comparing the daily diet composition, activity budget and body mass gain of starlings on UCT's Upper Campus.
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A predation risk experiment
The Black Sparrowhawk team has published a paper in the Royal Society journal 'Open Science' showing that birds are at a higher predation risk in dark light conditions.
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African Birdlife
We have a regular feature in African Birdlife - The FitzPatrick Report. 'Tag team: using satellite tags to understand wildlife crime' (Vol 7 (6) September/October 2019)
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Invasion by Black Sparrowhawks
Rob Little and Rene Navarro recently published a paper on the implications of geographical range changes and resultant sympatry for three Accipiter hawks on the Cape Peninsula, South Africa.
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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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*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