Bird distribution dynamics 10 - Pale-crowned Cisticola <i>Cisticola cinnamomeus</i> in South Africa

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  • Duncan R McKenzie
  • Les G Underhill
  • Marí­a López Gómez
  • Michael Brooks

Abstract

Overall, the Pale-crowned Cisticola is extremely unlikely to have experienced a dramatic increase in range and reporting rate due to rapid colonisation of new areas in the two-decade period between SABAP1 and SABAP2. Instead, the observed expansion needs to be attributed to a dramatic growth in observer skill. Citizen scientists, in both SABAP1 and especially in SABAP2, have probably had a larger, more profound effect on our knowledge of the status and distribution of the Pale-crowned Cisticola in South Africa than any ornithologists have managed since its discovery in 1904.

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Published

2017-04-02

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McKenzie, D. R., Underhill, L. G., López Gómez, M., & Brooks, M. (2017). Bird distribution dynamics 10 - Pale-crowned Cisticola <i>Cisticola cinnamomeus</i> in South Africa. Biodiversity Observations, 8, 15: 1 – 9. Retrieved from https://journals.uct.ac.za/index.php/BO/article/view/413

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