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Figure 1: The triangles mark the locations of all records of Red-billed...

Figure 2: The SABAP1 distribution of the Red-billed Oxpecker in...

Figure 4: The Red-billed Oxpecker on an eland at New Holme Nature...

Figure 5: The Red-billed Oxpecker on a sheep at New Holme Nature Lodge....

Figure 6: The Red-billed Oxpecker on a cow at New Holme Nature Lodge....

Red-billed Oxpecker Buphagus erythrorhynchus in the KhoiSan Karoo Conservancy, Northern Cape, South Africa

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Feb 2023

We report the occurrence of a Red-billed Oxpecker Buphagus erythrorhynchus at the New Holme Nature Lodge, Hanover, Northern Cape, South Africa. Sightings were made over the period 4 May to 3 September 2022.

The open-access journal Biodiversity Observations: report for the period 2010-2022

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Jan 2023

Between 2010 and 2022, the online journal Biodiversity Observations published 389 papers. In January 2023, the total number of downloads of these papers was 462,000. Between 2018 and 2022, 138 of the papers had been cited in Google Scholar, and had generated a total of 421 citations. The journal plans to continue publishing descriptive papers which...

The African Bird Atlas Project: a description of the project and BirdMap data-collection protocol

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Nov 2022

The African Bird Atlas Project (ABAP) is a citizen-science bird-monitoring programme that relies on a robust, repeatable protocol (BirdMap) and allows insights into the distributions of African birds and their conservation. The protocol involves collecting bird lists within spatial sampling units called pentads (5 × 5 minutes of latitude by longitu...

Large-Scale Climatic Patterns Have Stronger Carry-Over Effects than Local Temperatures on Spring Phenology of Long-Distance Passerine Migrants between Europe and Africa

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Jul 2022

Earlier springs in temperate regions since the 1980s, attributed to climate change, are thought to influence the earlier arrival of long-distance migrant passerines. However, this migration was initiated weeks earlier in Africa, where the Southern Oscillation, Indian Ocean Dipole, North Atlantic Oscillation drive climatic variability, and may addit...

A review of the opportunities to support pollinator populations in South African cities

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Mar 2022

Globally insects are declining, but some guilds of pollinators are finding refuge in urban landscapes. The body of knowledge on urban pollinators is relatively mature, which means it is now possible to begin to make generalization. Unfortunately, studies do not represent climatic regions evenly and there is a gap in research from the African contin...