CAR 17 Coordinated Avifaunal Roadcount (CAR) Form Please capture the information online at http://car.adu.org.za/ (if possible) and always send a copy to your Precinct Organiser.

Animal Demography Unit Department of Biological Sciences University of Rondebosch 7701 South Africa Fax: (021) 650-3301 Email: [email protected] http://car.adu.org.za/

Route leader’s name: ...... ADU Observer No(s): ...... Address: ...... Postal code: ...... Telephone: (home:) ...... (work:) ...... E-mail: ...... Names of observers: ...... Number of people in car: ...... Date of data collection (dd/mm/yy): ...... Time start: ...... Time end: ...... Tea or lunch break from: ...... to: ...... at: ...... km Count precinct: ...... Route number: ......

Weather (circle one choice in each category): Wind: none / light breeze / windy / strong wind. Cloud cover: clear / light cloud / cloudy / overcast. Temperature: cold / cool / moderate / hot / very hot. Rating of count conditions (circle choice): good / satisfactory / poor. Reason(s): ......

km at start of survey: . . . 0 . . . . . Detours and/or backtracks...... km km at end of survey: ...... Length of your route (subtract detours and/or backtracks) : ...... km

ALL SPECIES ONLY 3 CRANES, 3 LARGE BUSTARDS, 1 Relevant feature Habitat Side of Use this km Species Count 2 SBK + RAPTORS + CROWS column nearby road for km 3 Use Age class Activity calcula- Begin at abbre- Use abbreviations Use options L or R tions zero viations* Adults Juvs Chicks listed below listed below Use options listed below

1. Habitat: bare - recently ploughed field; cereal - cereal crops Use the following abbreviations: (e.g. wheat, maize, rye, oats, etc.); non-cereal - non-cereal crops (e.g. lupins, canola, vegetables); orchard - orchards, AS - Abdim's Stork; BBK - Black-bellied Bustard; BC - Blue vineyards, Opuntia (prickly pear), etc.; plantation - forestry Crane; BHH - Black-headed Heron; BI - Southern Bald Ibis; BS plantations of pines, wattles, etc.; stubble - stubble of - Black Stork; BSKT - Black-shouldered Kite; CC - Grey Crowned harvested crop; pasture - broad-leaved pasture (e.g. lucerne, Crane; CF - Crested Francolin; CPCW - Cape Crow; DB - clover, medics, etc.) or ‘unnatural’ ; mown - mown Denhams' Bustard; GH - Southern Ground-hornbill; GOL - Goliath pasture; veld - natural/indigenous vegetation (natural Heron; GWF - Grey-winged Francolin; HAR - Black Harrier; HG - grassland, ; etc.); burnt – recently burnt grassland; Helmeted Guineafowl; JKBZ - Jackal Buzzard; KB - Kori fallow - fallow land; wetland - dams, pans, rivers, etc.; flying; Bustard; KK - Karoo Korhaan; LB - Ludwig's Bustard; LCE - other – trees, heronry, water trough, near dwelling, lawn, Long-crested Eagle; MS - Marabou Stork; NBK - Northern Black haystack, road/verge; indeterminate; unknown. Korhaan; NS - Natal Spurfowl; OBS - African Openbill; ORF - Orange River Francolin; PCG - Southern Pale Goshawk; PICW - 2. Relevant feature nearby: agric land/ carcass/ cattle/ dam/ Pied Crow; RCK - Red-crested Korhaan; RNS - Red-necked feedlot/ horses/ irrigation/ on pole/ on pylon/ on wire/ water Spurfowl; RWF - Red-winged Francolin; SBK - Southern Black trough/ wetland/ windpump / veld/ roadkill/ rocky outcrop/ Korhaan; SBS - Saddle-billed Stork; SEC – Secretarybird; SG - reservoir/ waterhole/ plantation/ sheep/ other – anthill/ bird Spur-winged Goose; SHF - Shelley's Francolin; SPBZ - Steppe species/ game/ heronry/ near dwelling/ trees Buzzard; SS - Swainson's Spurfowl; UK - Blue Korhaan; WBK - White-bellied Korhaan; WC - Wattled Crane; WNR - White- 3. Activity: bathing/ breeding/ feeding/ flying/ displaying/ necked Raven; WNS - Woolly-necked Stork; WS - White Stork; drinking/ hunting (i.e. actively hunting for food)/ perched/ YS - Yellow-billed Stork inactive; or for korhaans only: “calling” if heard and not visible.

ALL SPECIES ONLY 3 CRANES, 3 LARGE BUSTARDS, 1 Relevant feature Side of

Use this km Species Count Habitat 2 SBK + RAPTORS + CROWS column nearby road for km Use Age class 3 calcula- abbre- L or R Activity tions viations* Adults Juvs Chicks

Details of ringed birds:

Notes:

RECORD THE TOTAL NUMBER OF EACH SPECIES SEEN ON YOUR ROUTE IN THE TABLE BELOW:

BC LB UK YS OBS SEC BSKT SPBZ

CC DB KK BS MS SG HAR PCG

WC SBK WBK WS GH BHH JKBZ LCE

NS ORF RCK RNS RWF SBS SHF SS

KB BBK NBK AS BI CF GOL GWF

YS CPCW PICW WNR WNS HG