La Tour du Valat

Institut de recherche pour la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes

Titre :	Red-Billed Queleas Quelea quelea in the Eastern Cape, South Africa: are they settling down?
Auteurs :	C. A. Whittington-Jones, Auteur ; P. E. Hulley, Auteur ; AJFK Craig, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Ostrich (No number JUL 2001)
Article en page(s) :	89-91
Langues:	Anglais
Résumé :	Over the past 20 years, Red-billed Quelea have been recorded more widely and more frequently in the Eastern Cape province. Since 1996 we have censused seed-eaters and ringed more than 4600 Red-billed Quelea at three study sites. Of these, 81 have been recaptured and 8 recovered dead,all within 26 km of the ringing site, except for one bird 415 km to the north. In South Africa over the same period, over 43 000 Red-billed Quelea have been ringed, of which 73 have been recovered, 56 > 100 km from the ringing site, including records from Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Our data suggest local rather than long-distance movements in the Eastern Cape population, and we postulate that changes in agricultural practices could enable Red-billed Queleas to adopt a less nomadic life-style in this region.

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