The Indalo Institute

Our Work

Programmes

From the floodplains of the Upper Zambezi to the coastal forests and suburbs of KwaZulu-Natal, each programme answers a specific question about how Africa’s birds live, move and persist.

A flock of waterbirds in flight over a floodplain
01

Waterbird Tracking

What wetland birds reveal about how Africa’s wetlands are connected.

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A small bird in hand fitted with a tracking device
02

Intra-African Land Bird Migration

Following small land birds that migrate within the continent.

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A Spotted Ground Thrush with earthworms in its bill
03

ThrushWatch

Counting and colour-ringing the endangered Spotted Ground Thrush.

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Ringers recording data at a field station
04

AFRING

Re-establishing a continent-wide bird ringing platform for Africa.

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Marabou Storks gathered on a landfill
05

Trash Birds

How landfills shape the movements of storks and ibises.

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An African Skimmer in flight low over the water
06

African Skimmers

Surveying skimmer populations and tracking their movements for the first time.

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White egrets nesting across a treetop colony
07

Colony Monitoring

Monitoring waterbird breeding colonies, from the ground and from above.

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An African Woolly-necked Stork on its nest above suburban houses
08

Urban Storks

How a shy wetland stork became a suburban neighbour.

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