Animal Demography Unit

Projects of the Animal Demography Unit

Seabirds and shorebirds

African Penguin. © René Navarro

Cape Gannet. © René Navarro

Cape Gannets. © René Navarro

Seabird species:

African Penguin
Fleshfooted Shearwater
Leach's Storm Petrel
Whitefaced Storm Petrel
Great White Pelican (old ADU website)
Redbilled Tropicbird
Australasian Gannet
Cape Gannet
Cape Cormorant
Bank Cormorant
Crowned Cormorant
White-breasted Cormorant
Kelp Gull (L. d. dominicanus Prince Edward Islands)
Kelp Gull "Cape Gull" (L. d. vetula Southern Africa)
Hartlaub's Gull
Franklin's Gull
Sabine's Gull
Caspian Tern
Antarctic Tern
Swift Tern

Shorebird species:

Important sites for seabirds and shorebirds:

Namibia

South Africa

Predators and Prey:

Click here to read more on the predators and prey of South Africa's seabirds.

Earthwatch:

Click here to read more on the African Penguin Earthwatch Programme.

Communication:

Waders-l and SEABIRD Listservers
BCLME Top Predotors report Final Report of the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosytem Top Predators Project
Rehabilitation of oiled African Penguins: a conservation success story
Marine Ornithology, the seabird journal