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  1. Quantifying Bias and Detectability in Pelagic Seabird Citizen Science: Insights From a Mass‐Participation Cruise‐Based Dataset
  2. Road-count trends, atlas trends, and the risks of treating one imperfect index as ground truth: A commentary on Zuluaga et al., 2026
  3. Short‐Term Effects of Alien Pine Control on Bird Species Richness in Mountain Fynbos, South Africa
  4. Encounter trends for steenbok, oribi, Cape grysbok and grey rhebok from the Coordinated Avifaunal Roadcount (CAR) project for South Africa
  5. Comparative density estimates of South Africa’s forest birds: integrating distance sampling, fixed radius counts, and trait-based predictive models
  6. BioSoundSCape: A bioacoustic dataset for the Fynbos Biome
  7. Urban persistence and species interactions: diverging trends in the abundance of Peregrine Falcons Falco peregrinus and Lanner Falcons F. biarmicus across southern Africa using the Southern ...
  8. The Africa Bird Data packages: African citizen science bird data in R
  9. A conservation assessment of birds in the Karoo region of South Africa: densities, populations, ranges, and trend estimates
  10. Persisting in a transformed landscape: occupancy and habitat association of the range-restricted Agulhas Long-billed Lark Certhilauda brevirostris
  11. Recent distribution and population trends for Secretarybirds Sagittarius serpentarius in South Africa, Lesotho, and Eswatini from citizen science data
  12. Using generalised additive models to visualise the annual cycle of primary feather moult patterns
  13. Multiple circannual moult strategies: feather tract moult patterns for common birds of the central Fynbos region, South Africa
  14. The breeding ecology of the Agulhas Long-billed Lark: an endemic bird dependent on the remnant Renosterveld of the Western Cape Province, South Africa
  15. A demonstration of the value of recapture data for informing moult phenology models for avian species with imperfect moult data
  16. The impact of a massive wildfire event on avian species richness and abundance in an arid African savanna ecosystem
  17. Gill Memorial Medal citation: Colleen Downs
  18. Correlates of yield, fecundity and survival of a wild harvested Cyclopia intermedia (honeybush) population
  19. A review of the conservation status of Black Stork Ciconia nigra in South Africa, Lesotho, and Eswatini
  20. The African Bird Atlas Project: a description of the project and BirdMap data-collection protocol
  21. A comparison of migrant and resident bird population changes in South Africa using citizen science data: trends in relation to Northern Hemisphere distribution
  22. The pros and cons of a virtual conference: the first virtual International Ornithological Congress held in 2022
  23. What can occupancy models gain from time‐to‐detection data?
  24. Austral birds offer insightful complementary models in ecology and evolution
  25. How do we feel, African Ornithology? A sentiment analysis search for symptoms of eco-anxiety
  26. The SABAP2 legacy: A review of the history and use of data generated by a long-running citizen science project
  27. One big Impact Factor
  28. Excessive red tape is strangling biodiversity research in South Africa
  29. Population Viability Analysis for a vulnerable ground-nesting species, the Cape Rockjumper Chaetops frenatus: assessing juvenile mortality as a potential area for conservation management
  30. Best student article published in Ostrich during 2020: we hope to see vultures circling again one day
  31. Effects of Climate Change on Birds (2nd Edn)
  32. Urban areas have lower species richness, but maintain functional diversity: insights from the African Bird Atlas Project
  33. Tortoise mortality along fence lines in the Karoo region of South Africa
  34. Seasonal metabolic adjustments in an avian evolutionary relict restricted to mountain habitat
  35. Lesotho annotated bibliography: Section 167A. Birds: annotated species checklist (3rd ed.) by David Ambrose
  36. A celebration of 90 years of Ostrich: a review of past, present, and future directions
  37. Increasing temperatures increase the risk of reproductive failure in a near threatened alpine ground‐nesting bird, the Cape Rockjumper Chaetops frenatus
  38. BirdLasser: The influence of a mobile app on a citizen science project
  39. Body mass and condition of a fynbos bird community: investigating impacts of time, weather and raptor abundance from long-term citizen- science datasets
  40. Can time‐to‐detection models with fewer survey replicates provide a robust alternative to traditional site‐occupancy models?
  41. Patterns of bird species richness at two sampling scales in the Karoo biome of South Africa
  42. Best student article published in Ostrich in 2019: hold onto your saddle, Bill, for the story behind a close race
  43. Summarising biometrics from the SAFRING database for southern African birds
  44. Bucking the trend: the African Black Oystercatcher as a recent conservation success story
  45. Vulnerability of birds to contaminated water sources in the Karoo region of South Africa
  46. Behaviour of an alpine range-restricted species is described by interactions between microsite use and temperature
  47. Modelling bird atlas reporting rate as a function of density in the southern Karoo, South Africa
  48. Agulhas long-billed lark (Certhilauda brevirostris) densities, population estimates and habitat association in a transformed landscape
  49. Best Student Research Paper Published in Ostrich 2018
  50. Book Review: Biologists in the Age of Totalitarianism
  51. Young Cape Rockjumpers use more water to maintain their body temperatures
  52. There are more birds close to water holes, even when they are not drinking
  53. How to get population estimates from citizien science data for birds of the Karoo biome
  54. Seasonal physiological responses to heat in an alpine range-restricted bird: the Cape Rockjumper (Chaetops frenatus)
  55. Extinct, Endangered or just Over-Looked? Distribution and population size of Hottentot Buttonquail
  56. Find out if Cape Rockjumpers adjust metabolic rate or evaporative water loss to keep cool in summer
  57. SENTINEL BEHAVIOR OR VIGILANCE AT A MACAW CLAYLICK?
  58. How to survey for rare terrestrial species: the case of the Hottentot Buttonquail
  59. Boat and on-foot tourist visits can effect where, how and when macaws feed at geophagy sites
  60. Urbanization, climate and ecological stress indicators in an endemic nectarivore, the Cape Sugarbird
  61. Conservation metrics from citizen science databases
  62. Correlates of water visitation in a fynbos birds community
  63. Bird population estimates from citizen science atlas data
  64. Bird ringing capture rates can be used as a surrogate for local density, with caveats of course....
  65. Endemic birds of the Fynbos biome: a conservation assessment and impacts of climate change
  66. The role of thermal physiology in recent declines of birds in a biodiversity hotspot
  67. Aspects of the Ecology and Morphology of the Protea Seedeater, Crithagra Leucopterus , a Little-Known Fynbos Endemic
  68. Diet and Geophagy Across a Western Amazonian Parrot Assemblage
  69. A distance sampling look at counting parrots in the Amazon.
  70. Spatial distribution of geophagy sites and associated species richness across South America