SAFRING

The South African Bird Ringing Unit

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Parent institution

| University of Cape Town
Coordinator| Robert Thomson
Location|

Cape Town

Western Cape

South Africa

Website| safring.birdmap.africa

The South African Bird Ringing Unit (SAFRING) is based at the University of Cape Town and provides bird ringing services in South Africa and other African countries. This entails providing ringing equipment to qualified ringers, and curating all ringing data. SAFRING communicates with ringers and interested parties through annually publishing one or two issues of a newsletter, Afring News, and by maintaining a list server. SAFRING holds national training courses, annually if there is sufficient demand. SAFRING liaises with the provinces who have the responsibility of issuing permits. SAFRING has a strict code of ethics to ensure the safety of birds handled. SAFRING acknowledges the importance of bird ringing in that it has been described as the most important tool in ornithology in the 20th century.

## History

Bird ringing in South Africa started in 1948 when the Southern African Ornithological Society (SAOS) initiated a bird ringing scheme under the leadership of Dr EH Ashton. The first birds to be ringed were 31 Cape Vultures Gyps coprotheres, ringed on 1 August 1948 at Kranzberg by a team of birders and mountaineers. A year later one of these, ring C00086 was found near Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, the first recovery of a southern African bird ring.

Bird ringing was initially organized by an NGO (Southern African Ornithological Society, SAOS) and the ringing effort steadily increased and by the 1960s the cost and complexity of administering the scheme exceeded the resources of the SAOS. The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) coordinated a deal whereby the four provincial conservation departments became the major sponsors of the National Unit for Bird Ringing Administration (NUBRA), in 1971, based at the University of Cape Town.

The unit became part of the Avian Demography Unit, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town, in 1991, which became the Animal Demography Unit, and moved to the Department of Zoology, University of Cape Town, in January 2008. In 2008 SAFRING organised a wide variety of events to celebrate its 60th anniversary of bird ringing in South Africa.[1]

## See also

* FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology

## References

1. ↑ Underhill, L.G., Oatley, T.B. and Berutti, A. 1995. Bird ringing in southern Africa. Projects for the future. ADU Guide 2. Avian Demography Unit, University of Cape Town.

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University of Cape Town

People|

* Chancellor: Precious Moloi-Motsepe
* Vice-chancellor: Mamokgethi Phakeng
* Notable academics
* Notable alumni

History|

* South African College
* Demonstrations at UCT
* List of alumni

Academic units|

* Animal Demography Unit
* SAFRING
* SABAP
* SABAP2
* Jewish Digital Archive Project
* Graduate School of Business
* Michaelis School of Fine Art
* Centre for Curating the Archive
* Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology
* South African College of Music

Libraries|

Bolus Herbarium

Student life|

* Green Campus Initiative
* Ikey Tigers
* Ikey Warriors
* SHAWCO
* Smuts Hall
* UCT Radio
* UNASA UCT
* Varsity
* Waaihoek

Affiliated hospitals|

* Groote Schuur Hospital
* Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital
* Valkenberg Hospital

Miscellaneous|

* Baxter Theatre Centre
* Irma Stern Museum

* University
* People

* v
* t
* e

University of Cape Town

People|

* Chancellor: Precious Moloi-Motsepe
* Vice-chancellor: Mamokgethi Phakeng
* Notable academics
* Notable alumni

History|

* South African College
* Demonstrations at UCT
* List of alumni

Academic units|

* Animal Demography Unit
* SAFRING
* SABAP
* SABAP2
* Jewish Digital Archive Project
* Graduate School of Business
* Michaelis School of Fine Art
* Centre for Curating the Archive
* Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology
* South African College of Music

Libraries|

Bolus Herbarium

Student life|

* Green Campus Initiative
* Ikey Tigers
* Ikey Warriors
* SHAWCO
* Smuts Hall
* UCT Radio
* UNASA UCT
* Varsity
* Waaihoek

Affiliated hospitals|

* Groote Schuur Hospital
* Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital
* Valkenberg Hospital

Miscellaneous|

* Baxter Theatre Centre
* Irma Stern Museum

* University
* People

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