ADU 20th anniversary celebration, Pretoria 2011-10-19 (156)
We held a very successful ADU 20th anniversary celebration event at the Education Centre in the Pretoria National Botanical Gardens on Saturday 15 October.
The programme included short presentations on most of the ADU projects, by ADU staff and our partner organisations, to provide feedback on our citizen science projects, and how the resulting data are used in science and conservation.
On Sunday 16 October a ringing session was held at Moreletakloof to demonstrate ringing to the attendees of the celebrations and for the Friends of Moreletakloof.
Several PHOWN records were submitted for the Botanic Gardens and Moreletakloof.
Photo: Red-collared Widow-bird male changing into breeding plumage.
172 birds were caught, of which 17 were recaptures:
| Robert's No. | Species | Ringed | Retraps |
| 317 | Laughing Dove | 1 | |
| 545 | Dark-capped Bulbul | 4 | |
| 439 | Crested Barbet | 2 | |
| 442 | Lesser Honeyguide | 1 | |
| 581 | Cape Robin-Chat | 6 | 2 |
| 599 | Willow Warbler | 1 | |
| 618 | Cape Grassbird | | 1 |
| 646 | Le Vaillant's Cisticola | | 1 |
| 649 | Tawny-flanked Prinia | 1 | |
| 650 | Black-chested Prinia | 1 | |
| 707 | Common Fiscal | | 1 |
| 715 | Black-crowned Tchagra | 1 | |
| 799 | Cape Weaver | 8 | 2 |
| 803 | Southern Masked Weaver | 74 | 5 |
| 804 | Thick-billed Weaver | 19 | |
| 808 | Southern Red Bishop | 29 | 5 |
| 813 | Red-collared Widow-bird | 4 | |
| 846 | Pin-tailed Whydah | 1 | |
| 1104 | Karoo Thrush | 2 | |
A special thanks goes to Dirk, Karen and Stefan van Stuyvenberg for hosting Les Underhill and myself for the weekend!
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