Results of the Garden Bird Counts Organised by the Percy Fitzpatrick Institute of African Ornithology: Part 1

Avian assemblages in native Acacia and alien Prosopis drainage line woodland in the Kalahari, South Africa

“…Garden bird studies in temperate and tropical Australia (Green, 1984;Woodall, 1987;Catterall et al, 1989), Mexico (Estrada et al, 1997), the south-western U.S.A. (Germaine et al, 1998) and southern Africa ( Winterbottom, 1970b( Winterbottom, , 1971( Winterbottom, , 1972Feather, 1986;Woodall et al, 1997) have come closest to testing the idea that changes in bird communities are related to changes in plant species, and not necessarily only to changes in environment and vegetation structure. Studies of the effects of conversion of South African shrubland to pine plantations (Armstrong & van Hensbergen, 1994;Armstrong et al, 1996) have demonstrated changes in bird, insect and plant assemblages.…”

The Role of Large-Scale Data Collection Projects in the Study of Southern African Birds

“…Thirty-two gardens in southern Africa were surveyed during the Garden Bird Counts (Winterbottom 1971a(Winterbottom , b, 1972b. The analyses were based on averages of counts of birds in each third of a month.…”