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      • Coevolutionary arms races in brood parasites and their hosts
      • The evolution, ecology and conservation of honeyguide-human mutualism
      • Cooperation and population dynamics in the Sociable Weaver
      • Pied Babblers
      • Sociable Weaver nests as a resource
      • Why do Afrotropical birds breed when they do?
      • Moult and migration
      • Threats, demography and mating systems of resident plovers
      • Evolution in island birds and the ‘insularity’ syndrome
    • Maintaining Biodiversity: Species-Level Conservation
      • Impacts of power infrastructure
      • Conserving Martial Eagles
      • Vulture conservation
      • Southern Ground-Hornbill conservation
      • Conserving Southern Ocean seabirds
      • Conserving islands and their birds
    • Maintaining Biodiversity: Global Change
      • Hot Birds - Climate change and desert birds
      • Global change and urban birds
      • Understanding the ecological impacts of Pied Crows
      • Plastics in the environment
    • Citizen Science
      • SAFRING
      • Southern African Bird Atlas Project (SABAP2)
      • CWAC, CAR and the VMs
    • Completed research programmes
      • Bird pollination in the Cape Floristic Region
      • Shorebirds under threat
      • Conserving Benguela endemic seabirds
      • Conserving Verreaux's Eagles
      • Conserving islands and their birds
      • Detecting aliens from space
      • Smart beaks: non-visual senses in birds
      • Understanding colour polymorphism in birds
      • Understanding urban raptor populations
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Completed research programmes

Understanding colour polymorphism in birds

Bird pollination in the Cape Floristic Region

Smart beaks: non-visual senses in birds

Conserving Verreaux’s Eagles

Conserving Benguela endemic seabirds

Shorebirds under threat

Conserving islands and their birds

Understanding urban raptor populations

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