The SABAP2 legacy: A review of the history and use of data generated by a long-running citizen science project

Lee, Alan T. K.; Brooks, Michael; Underhill, L. G.

doi:10.17159/sajs.2022/12030

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“…The Second Southern African Bird Atlas Project (SABAP2) (Underhill 2016, Underhill et al 2017, Lee et al 2022) started in 2007 and is ongoing. It provides an opportunity to evaluate the success of the Redbilled Oxpecker relocation projects, and to see the New Holme record in the context of these relocations (Figure 7).…”

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Red-billed Oxpecker Buphagus erythrorhynchus in the KhoiSan Karoo Conservancy, Northern Cape, South Africa

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Red-billed Oxpecker Buphagus erythrorhynchus in the KhoiSan Karoo Conservancy, Northern Cape, South Africa

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“…Our fieldwork was conducted in southern Kruger National Park (KNP), Mpumalanga, South Africa. This area is associated with the highest numbers of observations of European and Lilac-breasted Rollers in southern Africa based on citizen science through the South African Bird Atlas Projects (SABAP1 and SABAP2) ( (Underhill 2016, Underhill et al 2017, Lee et al 2022) (Figure 2). Our study area extended from the Crocodile River -the Park's southern boundary to the Sabie River flowing from Skukuza to Lower Sabie (Fourie 1992).…”

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Web-sourced photographic methods reveal dietary composition and shifts in resident and migrant Coracias rollers in southern Africa

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Closely related species coexisting in the same niche often have dietary overlap and interspecific competition can result in resource partitioning e.g., dietary shifts, migration or phenological changes. Traditional methods to study avian diets are typically costly, difficult, and invasive. Using web-sourced photographs is an emerging, non-invasive method to study avian foraging ecology. We used this approach, along with photographic road surveys, to study prey composition of migratory European Rollers Coracias garrulus and resident Lilac-breasted Rollers Coracias caudatus where they co-occur in southern Africa. These insectivorous sister species are frequently photographed with prey in their bills because of their conspicuous perch-and-wait foraging behaviour and bright plumage coloration. We collated over 250 photographs of rollers holding prey and identified prey items representing 15 animal orders. Lilac-breasted Roller diet contained six unique orders of prey during the Austral summer (when the European Roller is present), and only one during winter (when the European Roller has migrated north). This suggests that Lilac-breasted Rollers may broaden their diet seasonally to alleviate competition with European Rollers during summer. Additionally, Lilac-breasted and European Rollers had an 84% overlap in dietary composition, potentially representing high interspecific competition - even during wet savanna summers when resource abundance is high - that might have originally driven the evolution of migratory behaviour in the European Roller. Our findings expand the current knowledge of roller diets and highlighting the growing role of social media in ecological studies.

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“…Long-term structured surveys, which use randomly selected sites and survey methods that are standardised over time and space, are the gold standard for robust status and change assessments. Such structured surveys require large and long-term commitments and can be costly to organise and coordinate (Schmeller et al, 2009) and therefore such monitoring programmes (Sauer et al, 2017;Greenwood et al, 1995;Lee et al, 2022;van Swaay et al, 2019;Pescott et al, 2015) have a long history of leveraging the efforts of amateur naturalists, and thus form one end of the citizen science spectrum.…”

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10. How Conservation Practice Can Generate Evidence

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Conservation practice provides a considerable opportunity to generate new evidence to inform future decision-making. Substantial resources are currently invested in data collection and monitoring, yet too often these are ineffectively designed, meaning the data gathered contributes little to building an evidence base. However, thinking in advance about how actions are implemented, data are collected, and results are shared can greatly increase the usefulness of the results. Controls, comparisons, replication, randomisation, and preregistration can all improve the value of the data collected.

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The SABAP2 legacy: A review of the history and use of data generated by a long-running citizen science project

Abstract: African Bird Atlas Project data collection follows a simple protocol. 8 Lists are collected within a geographical pentad, which is a grid cell on a map corresponding to five geographical minutes of latitude north-south and

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Red-billed Oxpecker Buphagus erythrorhynchus in the KhoiSan Karoo Conservancy, Northern Cape, South Africa

Red-billed Oxpecker Buphagus erythrorhynchus in the KhoiSan Karoo Conservancy, Northern Cape, South Africa

Web-sourced photographic methods reveal dietary composition and shifts in resident and migrant Coracias rollers in southern Africa

10. How Conservation Practice Can Generate Evidence

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