Current News
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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.
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.
Tshifhiwa Mandiwana-Neudani, Rob Little, Tim Crowe and Rauri Bowie 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.’
PhD student Nick Pattinson is looking for a field volunteer to assist him with data collection for his research on the Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill in the Kuruman River Reserve near Van Zylsrus, Northern Cape.
Patrick Morant, long-time supporter of the FitzPatrick Institute and former director of SAFRING in the 1970s, died on 30 March.
Applications are invited for a Post-doctoral researcher to undertake research on the drivers of woody encroachment and the impacts on ecological functioning and ecosystem services, through combining broad-scale remotely sensed products, environmental GIS, field, and citizen science bird atlas datasets. The successful applicant will be registered at the University of the Witwatersrand and assume research within the School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Science (APES) in collaboration with researchers from the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and University of Stellenbosch (and others).
BirdLife South Africa is looking for a well-qualified, experienced and innovative Seabirds Conservation Programme Manager to head the organisation’s Seabird Conservation Programme, implement African Penguin and Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries projects, and to manage the programme’s seabird conservation projects and staff.
Dr Megan Murgatroyd and A/Prof.Arjun Amar together with colleagues from the UK this week published a paper in the journal Nature Communications which has been making considerable media waves.
Welcome to the new Niven Librarian, Janine Dunlop who joined the FitzPatrick Institute on Monday 11 March 2019.
BirdLife South Africa is looking for a well-qualified, experienced, dynamic, hard-working, and forward thinking Conservation Manager to head the organisation’s Conservation Division and to oversee the organisation’s conservation programmes and staff.
Antarctic biologist, Professor David Walton, just passed away in the UK following a massive heart attack.
Closing date: January 25, 2019. We invite applications for opportunities to study either a MSc or a PhD on "Small Procellariiformes as indicators of ecosystem changes and plastic pollution"