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An online platform for African wetland and waterbird data
The Sites and Species pages are resources for site managers, researchers and bird enthusiasts who are interested in wetland sites and bird species. Here, you will be able to select a particular wetland site or bird species, to find useful information structured into easy to navigate tables. Whether you're looking to monitor bird populations or assess wetland health, these webpages are a valuable tool for anyone invested in wetland and waterbird conservation.
BIRDIE has information about more than 700 wetland sites in South Africa. The sites are regularly monitored by the Coordinated Waterbird Counts (CWAC). CWAC is an initiative that has been ongoing since 1992 where observers count the numbers of waterbirds at certain wetland sites twice each year. On the Sites page you can select an individual wetland site to show descriptive information about the site, a map of its location, info about the wetland types and a comprehensive list of all the bird species recorded. You can also find the Waterbird Conservation Value for the site, which is an overall measure of how important a wetland is for the population of waterbirds.
BIRDIE has information about more than 140 waterbird species in South Africa. Bird data is drawn from two valuable citizen science projects that collect information on the distribution and abundance of waterbirds. On the Species page you can select an individual bird species to show descriptive information about the species, a comprehensive list of all the wetland sites where it has been recorded and how its abundance is changing over time. You can also find graphs of the total estimated population size of the species for each province (at recorded sites).
