Sanjo Rose
MSc (UCT) Biological Sciences
BSc Hons (UCT) Biological Sciences
BSc (UCT) Applied Biology and English Literature & Language
Research and Interests
Sanjo has an interest in applied conservation biology and animal behaviour. She is a past student and staff member of the FitzPatrick Institute. She has worked for a variety of NGOs, including BirdLife South Africa, HawkWatch International and the Cape Parrot Project. She currently works as a consulting conservation biologist skilled in biodiversity assessment, data analysis, and scientific communication. She is one of the editors on the Birds of the World Roberts 8 project.
To get in touch with Sanjo please visit https://sanjorose.co.za/
Publications:
Lee ATK, Rose S, Banda S, Bezeng SB, Maphalala MI, Maphisa DH & Smit-Robinson HA (eds), The 2025 Red Data Book of Birds of South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini. Johannesburg, South Africa: BirdLife South Africa. [And numerous species accounts within]. Available at: https://www.birdlife.org.za/red-data-book/
Ehlers Smith, D, Rose, S & Lee, A. 2024. Range, population estimates and conservation recommendations for Baillon’s Crake, Allen’s Gallinule, African Swamphen and Red-chested Flufftail in South Africa. Afrotropical Bird Biology: Journal of the Natural History of African Birds, 4. Available at: https://journals.uct.ac.za/index.php/ABB/article/view/v4_4.
Rose, S, Thomson, RL, Lee, ATK & Ryan, PG. 2024. The breeding ecology of the Agulhas Long-billed Lark: an endemic bird dependent on the remnant Renosterveld of the Western Cape Province, South Africa. Journal of Ornithology, 165: 391-404.
Rose, S, Thomson, RL & Lee, ATK. 2024. Persisting in a transformed landscape: occupancy and habitat association of the range-restricted Agulhas Long-billed Lark Certhilauda brevirostris. Emu-Austral Ornithology, 1-10.
Hunt, H, Marais, L, Cunningham, S, Ridley, A, Moagi, L, Rose, S, McKechnie, A, & Bourne, A. 2024. Camelthorn Trees Vachellia erioloba provide crucial resources for breeding Southern Pied Babblers Turdoides bicolor in the Kalahari Desert. Ibis. 166: 82-94. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13232
Brooks, M, Rose, S, Altwegg, R, Lee, ATK, Nel, H, Ottosson, U, Retief, E, Reynolds, C, Ryan PG, Shema, S, Tende, T, Underhill, LG & Thomson, RL. 2022. The African Bird Atlas Project: a description of the project and BirdMap data collection protocol. Ostrich. 93(4): 223-232.
Rose, S. 2022. Ground nesting Capped Wheatear Oenanthe pileata in the Western Cape South Africa. Afrotropical Bird Biology: Journal of the Natural History of African Birds. 2. https://doi.org/10.15641/abb.v2i.1156
Rose, S, Suri, J, Brooks, M & Ryan, PG. 2020. COVID-19 and citizen science: lessons learned from southern Africa. Ostrich. 91:2 188-191. DOI: 10.2989/00306525.2020.1783589
Rose, S, Paijmans, D & Oschadleus, HD. 2019. How far and how old: Longevity and Displacement Records from the South African Ringing Scheme for Ardeidae, Threskiornidae, and Ciconiidae. Bothalia. 49: 1. https://library.aosis.co.za/index.php/record/view/21212
Paijmans, D, Rose S & Oschadleus, HD. 2019. Using large scale citizen science ringing data as a means of calculating maximum longevity in birds. Bothalia. 49: 1. https://abcjournal.org/index.php/ABC/article/view/2389
Rose, S, Thomson, RL, Oschadleus, HD, & Lee, ATK. 2019. Summary biometrics held in the SAFRING database for southern African birds. Ostrich. https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2019.1645054
Sumasgutner, P & Rose, S, et al. 2018. Exploring the influence of urbanization on morph distribution and morph-specific breeding performance in a polymorphic African raptor. Journal of Raptor Research. https://doi.org/10.3356/JRR-17-37.1
Rose, S & Sumasgutner, P, et al. 2017. Does seasonal decline in breeding performance differ for an African raptor across an urbanization gradient? Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution DOI.org/10.3389/fevo.2017.00047
Rose, S & Oschadleus, HD. 2017. Longevity summary from 69 years of Estrildidae ringing data in Southern Africa. African Zoology. DOI.org/10.1080/15627020.2017.1413953
Popular Science
Rose, S. 2023. The FitzPatrick Report: Agulhas Long-billed Lark. African Birdlife. 11(4): 16.
Rose, S & Retief, E. 2023. SABAP: Evaluating the feedback. African Birdlife. 11(3): 47. Available: http://www.fitzpatrick.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/image_tool/images/275/Publicati ons/semi-popular/2023/AB11%283%2947_SABAP.pdf
Rose, S. 2022. SABAP: Contribute to science. African Birdlife. 11(1): 58.
Rose, S. 2022. SABAP: One in a million: Targeting new pentads motivates keen atlasers. African Birdlife. 10(5): 58. Available: http://www.fitzpatrick.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/image_tool/images/275/Publicati ons/semi-popular/2022/AB10%285%2958.pdf
Hoenders, T & Rose, S. 2022. Hatching Southern Black Korhaan egg found in a sheep pasture. The Lark 41:61-63.
Rose, S. & Reynolds, C. SABAP Report: Lockdown lists and the protocol debate. African Birdlife. 8(5): 34. Available: http://www.fitzpatrick.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/image_tool/images/275/Publicati ons/semi-popular/2020/AB08%285%2934_SABAP.pdf
Rose, S, Retief, E, Lee, ATK. SABAP. 2020. Saving SABAP. African Birdlife. 8(6): 64. Available: http://www.fitzpatrick.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/image_tool/images/275/Publications/semi-popular/2020/AB08%286%2964.pdf
Retief, E & Rose, S. A vetted life list! 2019. Various club newsletters.
Rose, S & de Klerk, W. SABAP. 2019. Agulhas Plain Birding Project. African Birdlife. 8(1): 61. Available: http://www.fitzpatrick.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/image_tool/images/275/Publicati ons/semi-popular/2019/AB08%281%2961.pdf
Rose, S. Exciting African Dusky Flycatcher Recovery. 2019. Bee-eater.
Visagie, R & Rose, S. 2018. Check it out! Colour Ringing Southern Pale Chanting Goshawks. Promerops. 310: 8. Rose, S. 2017. Maximum longevities and causes of death in kingfishers from SAFRING data. Biological Observations.
Rose, S. 2017. Russian Western Osprey Pandion haliaetus resighting near Kleinmond, Western Cape and a brief overview of P. haliaetus migration in Africa. Promerops. 308: 12-13.