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| Mkhuze Game Reserve, September 2013
(Subsp notophila)
(Photo Stan Culley)
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| Pretoriuskop, Kruger NP, November 2010
(Subsp notophila)
(Photo Andy Ruffle)
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| Pretoriuskop, Kruger NP, November 2010
(Subsp notophila)
(Photo Andy Ruffle)
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| Pretoriuskop, Kruger NP, November 2010
(Subsp notophila)
(Photo Andy Ruffle)
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South Africa's bustards and korhaans are in trouble, with six of the country's ten species listed in "The Eskom Red Data Book for Birds of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland". "They are threatened by a variety of factors, including habitat destruction and collision with power-lines".
David Allan is the editor of the interesting and informative publication of Bustard Beat, which includes the following articles:
Ludwig's Bustard project update 2010 by Jessica Shaw
Update on the Southern Black Korhaan by Sally Hofmeyr
Kori Bustard conservation and ecology – saving one of the world's heaviest flying birds by Kabelo Senyatso
Does the Important Bird Areas programme adequately conserve South Africa's bustards and korhaans? by Ernst Retief
Conservation biology of the White-bellied Korhaan Eupodotis senegalensis Vieillot 1820 in South Africa by Craig Symes & Hanneline Smit
Twitching for conservation by Niall Perrins
The White-bellied Korhaan's identity crisis. Part 2 –`White-bellied' or`Barrow's'? by David Allan
Race is on to repopulate species of bustards by Vesela Toderova
Download can be found at http://www.birdlife.org.za/page/5561/bustard_working_group
or click onhttp://www.birdlife.co.za/data/files/bustard_beat_2_20110312142447.pdf
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