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Plastics, plastics everywhere!

A 4 lecture series on the problem of waste plastics will be offered at the UCT Summer School (Jan 14-17). The speakers are Prof. Peter Ryan, Vonica Perold and Eleanor Weideman from the FitzPatrick Institute and Aaniyah Omardien from The Beach Co-op.

Full details on the Summer School website ...

MSc/PhD opportunity: Influence of ecosystem variability on Eudyptes Penguins at Marion Island

We invite applications for a MSc/PhD opportunity to study the influence of ecosystem variability on demography and reproductive performance on Eudyptes penguins at sub-Antarctic Marion Island.

African Birdlife

We have a regular feature in African Birdlife - In The FitzPatrick Report. 'Fact Finding: The IOC and big data' (Vol 7 (1) Nov/Dec 2018), Prof. Peter Ryan describes the highlights from the 27th International Ornithological Congress held in Vancouver...

Download this and other Fitz-authored articles in the latest issue of African Birdlife here ...

Mystery of the world's smallest flightless bird solved

Using "next generation sequencing" techniques, a research team has finally solved the mystery of whether the ancestor of the Inaccessible Island Rail, the world's smallest flightless bird, had come from Africa or from South America.

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DST-NRF Centre of Excellence*

*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.

Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology