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The APNR Southern Ground-Hornbill Research Project's July 2025 report is now available.

Gabriel Jamie and colleagues have published a study that investigates why the chicks of estrildid finches have such striking variation in appearance.

The FitzPatrick Institute congratulates Prof. Claire Spottiswoode on her election as a Fellow of the Royal Society

Call for applications for the African Raptor Leadership Grant; deadline 30 June

Update on the attack on Mariri Environmental Centre in Mozambique, an important FitzPatrick study site, in April 2025

More findings regarding falcon malar stripes

The APNR Southern Ground-Hornbill Research Project's April 2025 report is now available.

The Cape Town launch of the Max Planck–University of Cape Town Centre for Behaviour and Coevolution took place at the Fitz in March.

Congratulations to all the FitzPatrick Institute students who graduated at the April 2, 2025 Science Faculty graduation ceremony!