Newsletter / Blog
2011-06-16 The South African Bird Ringing Unit - SAFRING
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 liases
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.
The South African Bird Ringing Unit (SAFRING) administers bird
ringing in southern Africa, supplying rings, ringing equipment and
services to volunteer and professional ringers in South Africa and
neighbouring countries. All ringing records are curated by SAFRING,
which is an essential arm of the Animal Demography Unit. Contact is
maintained by the SAFRING Project Coordinator with all ringers (banders
in North American or Australian terminology). |