Coordinated Waterbird Counts

Michael Brooks

doi:10.15468/npx9ow

Coordinated Waterbird Counts

Citation

Brooks M (2025). Coordinated Waterbird Counts. Version 1.146. FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/npx9ow accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-05-12.

Description

The Animal Demography Unit (ADU) launched the Coordinated Waterbird Counts (CWAC) project in 1992 as part South Africas commitment to International waterbird conservation. This is being done by means of a programme of regular mid-summer and mid-winter censuses at a large number of South African wetlands. Regular six-monthly counts are regarded as a minimum standard; however, we do encourage counters to survey their wetlands on a more regular basis as this provides more accurate data. All the counts are conducted by volunteers; people and organisations with a passion for waterbird conservation. It is one of the largest and most successful citizen science programmes in Africa, providing much needed data for waterbird conservation around the world. Currently the project regularly monitors over 400 wetlands around the country, and furthermore curates waterbird data for over 600 sites.

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

The Coordinated Waterbird Count project is active in South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. There are plans to extren this coverage to numerous other countries.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Michael Brooks
originator
position: Information Systems Specialist
Animal Demography Unit
University of Cape Town
Cape Town
7701
Western Cape
ZA
Telephone: +27 21 650 4751
email: michael.brooks@uct.ac.za
homepage: http://cwac.adu.org.za
userId: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAIAAAZ9_7cBZQwzeccqn1jxoU9Qib4TDz6dCmk

Michael Brooks
metadata author
position: Information Systems Specialist
Animal Demography Unit
University of Cape Town
Cape Town
7701
Western Cape
ZA
Telephone: +27 21 650 4751
email: michael.brooks@uct.ac.za
homepage: http://www.adu.org.za

Michael Brooks
point of contact
position: Information Systems Specialist
FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Dept of Biological Sciences
University of Cape Town
Rondebosch, Cape Town
7701
Western Cape
ZA
Telephone: +27216504751
email: michael.brooks@uct.ac.za
homepage: http://cwac.birdmap.africa
userId: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAIAAAZ9_7cBZQwzeccqn1jxoU9Qib4TDz6dCmk

Michael Brooks
administrative point of contact
position: Information Systems Specialist
Animal Demography Unit
University of Cape Town
Cape Town
7701
Western Cape
ZA
Telephone: +27 21 650 4751
email: michael.brooks@uct.ac.za
homepage: http://cwac.adu.org.za
userId: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAIAAAZ9_7cBZQwzeccqn1jxoU9Qib4TDz6dCmk