Dr Lindy Thompson 🇿🇦

Characteristics of potential nesting trees for White-Backed #vultures (Gyps africanus) in South Africa 🇿🇦 | doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7… | @Ecol_Evol | #ERAIFT | #ornithology

A visit to the #Kruger National Park with Prof. Bill Bowerman from @UofMaryland and @ExplorersClub. Bill has studied Bald Eagles 🦅 for 40 years, and he visited #Hoedspruit to raise awareness about #avianinfluenza.

Projected climate scenarios reveal an expanding suitable habitat for the Critically Endangered White-backed Vulture doi.org/10.1002/inc3.81 | #whitebackedvulture | #ornithology

We recently hosted eminent Prof. Bill Bowerman from @UofMaryland for a talk on how #BirdFlu has ravaged the population of Bald Eagles that he has studied for 40 years 🦅 Thanks to @timbavati Private Nature Reserve for the use of this beautiful venue | @TheEWT | @ExplorersClub.

New study using camera traps to study breeding behaviour of Cape Vultures | doi.org/10.1007/s10336… | #capevulture | #ornithology | #nestpredation

Needs more vulture.

I'm leading a big collaborative study, asking experts to fill in spreadsheets for various bird species. One of South Africa's foremost bird experts, with each spreadsheet she submits to me, sends me a gorgeous anecdote about each species. Receiving her emails is making my day! 😊

Two recent studies on Africa's Palm-nut Vulture | dx.doi.org/10.4314/vulnew… | dx.doi.org/10.4314/vulnew… | #palmnutvulture | #ornithology | #ageing

Wing beat analysis of newly introduced juvenile Bearded vultures in Bavaria #BeardedVultures2024 Like many gym goers, they know to take rest days

Incredible colored pencil art!

Status assessment and conservation priorities for a circumpolar raptor: the Snowy Owl Bubo scandiacus cambridge.org/core/journals/…

A record-breaking Hooded Vulture sighting thanks to Marcus Nash @OrioleBirding. Green FK ringed Saruja CRD 13/11/24 resighted: 22/11/24 Senegambia Hotel WCD 129 miles in 9 days. The first recorded movement between the population groups we are studying. Photo: Steve and Judy Down

Our Hooded Vultures showing off that pink goes good with blue! 💙💖 We're determined to make vultures POPULAR! Vulture populations are on the decline, resulting in them being the most vulnerable of all birds globally. Find out how we're conserving them: ow.ly/2vLb50UeLrg

New #genetics paper, led by brilliant PhD candidate @LeRynhardt: "Family associations in a breeding colony of Critically Endangered Hooded #Vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus) in the Lowveld of South Africa" 🇿🇦 doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7… @lab_munro

New paper, led by the wonderful @ClementDabone: "Nest-site selection by Hooded #Vultures Necrosyrtes monachus in the Sudano–Sahelian area of Burkina Faso" 🇧🇫 tandfonline.com/eprint/IUE9CUR… doi.org/10.2989/003065…

Interesting new article, led by @SamManqele: "Aspects of the illegal hunting and trade of #vultures in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa" 🇿🇦 doi.org/10.2989/003065…

Levaillant's Cuckoo, Clamator levaillantii, is a summer breeding inter-African migrant to West Africa. This bird was ringed as a breeding adult in November 2023 and retrapped at the same site exactly a year later. The first ever record of breeding site fidelity in this species.

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