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November 2024

Job Ad: Field Manager x2 - Sociable Weaver Project - Fri, 11/08/2024 - 13:07
Job Ad: Field Research Assistant - Kalahari - Tue, 11/05/2024 - 10:51

October 2024

Job Ad: Overwintering Research Assistant - Marion Island - Fri, 10/11/2024 - 12:50

September 2024

Fitz seabird study finds little change in the amounts of plastic at sea since 1980s - Tue, 09/03/2024 - 13:33

August 2024

Final chance to apply for the 2025 Conservation Biology MSc programme - Tue, 08/27/2024 - 10:47
Women’s Month: Merging love, passion and wonder - Thu, 08/08/2024 - 15:29
Heritage Gallery Digital Exhibitions - Tue, 08/06/2024 - 11:41

July 2024

Biodiversity expedition to Mozambique - Wed, 07/17/2024 - 11:09
Fitz boosts UCT's global impact - Fri, 07/12/2024 - 10:29
First Max Planck Centre in Africa - Wed, 07/03/2024 - 12:58

June 2024

Applications are open for the 2025 Conservation Biology MSc programme - Wed, 06/26/2024 - 09:54
Volunteers needed for the Red-winged Starling Project - Thu, 06/20/2024 - 13:17
Loadshedding offers unique research opportunity - Wed, 06/12/2024 - 09:39

May 2024

Seabirds ingesting an increasing amount of plastic - Thu, 05/23/2024 - 12:50

April 2024

New paper on "African alarm clocks", Hadeda Ibis - Tue, 04/16/2024 - 14:40

March 2024

2024 AGM - Sat, 03/30/2024 - 12:11

January 2024

New paper: African raptors are disappearing! - Wed, 01/17/2024 - 12:03

December 2023

We're looking for a new Administrative Assistant - Fri, 12/22/2023 - 12:23
Postdoctoral Fellow - Raptor Research - Thu, 12/21/2023 - 15:40
New paper on human-honeyguide cooperation and communication - Fri, 12/08/2023 - 06:57

September 2023

2023 AGM - Fri, 09/01/2023 - 10:29

July 2023

Drongo egg ‘signatures’ are an effective defence against near-perfect mimicry by African cuckoos - Fri, 07/28/2023 - 13:01

April 2023

New FitzPatrick Institute Director - Mon, 04/03/2023 - 19:00

March 2023

Survey: Perception of the impacts of Pied Crows in South Africa - Fri, 03/24/2023 - 14:00

December 2022

Ricardo Guta (31/07/1991 – 01/12/2022) - Mon, 12/05/2022 - 17:00

October 2022

African Birdlife magazine - Editor and Production Manager - Mon, 10/31/2022 - 12:30
Call for papers: Special issue of Ostrich in memory of W. Richard J. Dean - Mon, 10/31/2022 - 12:15

August 2022

Obituary - W. Richard J. Dean - Thu, 08/04/2022 - 09:00

May 2022

Peter Ryan awarded BLSA's Gill Memorial Medal - Tue, 05/31/2022 - 13:00

February 2022

2021 Purcell Memorial Prize winner - Wed, 02/23/2022 - 10:00

September 2021

Fitz Director, Peter Ryan joined the Arctic Century Expedition - Tue, 09/07/2021 - 08:45
New paper: The impacts of high temperatures on rockjumper chicks - Fri, 09/03/2021 - 10:30

July 2021

Fitz study finds that ships are illegally dumping plastic bottles that end up on South African beaches - Thu, 07/29/2021 - 10:00
Sunbirds maintain flower colour diversity - Thu, 07/08/2021 - 12:15

June 2021

New study suggests falcons have natural ‘eye makeup’ to improve hunting ability - Fri, 06/25/2021 - 14:15
New paper published in the African Journal of Marine Science - Fri, 06/18/2021 - 11:45
New study published : The importance of sociable weaver colonies to the surrounding animal community - Mon, 06/14/2021 - 12:00

March 2021

New paper published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment - Fri, 03/19/2021 - 13:15

February 2021

Unpleasant meals may help manage crow predation on bird nests - Wed, 02/24/2021 - 07:30

December 2020

Sensing good vibrations: a remarkable sensory organ in the beaks of ancient fossil birds - Thu, 12/03/2020 - 10:15

November 2020

The 2020 MSc CB class finally get in to the field again - Tue, 11/24/2020 - 12:00
New paper on the critically endangered White-winged Flufftail - Fri, 11/13/2020 - 09:30
Congratulations to Dr Susie Cunningham on her UCT College of Fellows’ Young Researcher Award - Wed, 11/11/2020 - 10:45

October 2020

Common Bulbuls time moult to the onset of rains in each locality - Tue, 10/20/2020 - 11:00
Animal Behaviour Community Africa - Thu, 10/15/2020 - 11:30
More new papers from the Hot Birds Project team - Wed, 10/14/2020 - 10:15

September 2020

2020/2021 Gough Island Restoration team arrive on the island - Mon, 09/28/2020 - 09:30
Award for Fitz Honorary Research Associate, Prof. Wendy Foden - Wed, 09/02/2020 - 09:00

August 2020

New papers from the Hot Birds Project team - Mon, 08/03/2020 - 09:45
Managing geese on golf courses - Mon, 08/03/2020 - 09:15