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Delport W, Kemp AC, Ferguson JWH 2004. Structure of an African Red-Billed Hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus rufirostris and T. e. damarensis) Hybrid Zone as Revealed by Morphology, Behavior, and Breeding Biology. Auk 121 (2) 565-586

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/4090420

Delport W 2001. The taxonomic status of the Damaraland Redbilled Hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus damarensis).

Website link:http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02092006-122011/

Simmons R 1986. Immature black sparrowhawk eating live guineafowl. Gabar 1 (2) 60-61

Barnard P, Simmons R, Jackson HD, Goodman SM, Cyrus DP, Herholdt JJ 1986. Short Notes. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 57 (2) 107-114

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1986.9634133

Simmons R, Barnard P, Smith PC 1987. Reproductive Behaviour of Circus cyaneus in North America and Europe: A Comparison. Ornis Scandinavica 18 (1) 33-41

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/27669756?uid=4&sid=21100861900201

Simmons R 1988. Offspring quality and the evolution of cainism. Ibis 130 (3) 339–357

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1988.tb08809.x/abstracthttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1988.tb08809.x/abstract

Simmons R 1991. Comarisons and functions of sky-dancing displays of Circus harriers: untangling the marsh harrier complex. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 62 (1-2) 45-51

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1991.9639640

Simmons R 1992. Brood adoption and deceit among African Marsh Harriers Circus ranivorus. Ibis 134 (1) 32–34

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1992.tb07226.x/abstract

Simmons RE 2000. Harriers of the world: their behaviour and ecology.

Website link:http://www.andrewisles.com/all-stock/publication/harriers-of-the-world-their-behaviour-and-ecology

Brown LH 1971. The breeding behaviour of the Lesser Flamingo Phoeniconaias Minor. Ibis 113 (2) 147-172

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1971.tb05141.x/abstract?systemMessage=Wiley%20Online%20Library%20will%20be%20disrupted%20on%209%20June%20from%2010%3A00-12%3A00%20BST%20%2805%3A00-07%3A00%20EDT%29%20for%20essential%20maintenance

Little RM, Crowe TM 1992. Vocal behaviour of Greywing Francolin Francolinus africanus can be used to estimate population density. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 63 (2-3) 98-109

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1992.9633958#.VRz7Smf9kpE

Roslin T 2002. So near and yet so far- habitat fragmentation and bird movement. News and Comment 17 (2) 61

Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0169-5347(01)02437-5

Thiollay J-M, Clobert J 1990. Comparative foraging adaptations of small raptors in a dense African savanna. Ibis 132 (1) 42 - 57

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1990.tb01015.x/abstract

Underhill LG, Underhill GD 1997. Primary moult, mass and movements of rock pigeons Columba guinea in the Western Cape, South Africa. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 68 (2-4) 86 - 89

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1997.9639719#.VRzo9Wf9kpE

Stutterheim IM, Bezuidenhout JD, Elliott EG 1988. Comparative feeding behaviour and food preferences of oxpeckers (Buphagus erythrorhynchus and B. Africanus) in captivity. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research 55 (3) 173 - 179

Website link:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3194119

Maclean GL 1971. Larks of the Kalahari. African Wildlife 25 144 - 147

Hoesch W 1937. Brut- und Mauserbeobachtungen an verschiedenen Lophoceros-Arten. Ornitologische Monatsberichte 45 106 - 114

Harris T, Arnott G 1988. Shrikes of Southern Africa.

Koenig WD 1997. Host preferences and behaviour of oxpeckers: Co-existence of similar species in a fragmented landscape. Evolutionary Ecology 11 (1) 91 - 104

Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1018439614008

Macdonald IAW 1990. The significance of recent observations on interspecific feeding association in Botswana. Babbler 20 9 - 11

Website link:http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/publications.html

Attwell RIG 1963. Some observations on feeding habits, behaviour and inter-relationships of Northern Rhodesian vultures. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 34 (4) 235 - 247

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1963.9633479#.VRPS62c5ApE

Thomas DH 1984. Adaptations of desert birds, Sandgrouse (Pteroclidae) as highly successful inhabitants of Afro-Asian arid lands. Journal of Arid Environments 7 157 - 181

Thomas DH 1983. Aposematic behaviour in the Blacksmith Plover. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 54 (1) 51 - 52

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1983.9634444#.VSvKnWf9kpE

Thomas DH, Maclean GL 1981. Comparison of physiological and behavioural thermoregulation and osmoregulation in two sympatric Sandgrouse species (Aves: Pteroclididae). Journal of Arid Environments 4 335 - 358

Schreiber RW 1985. Comparative behaviour of the Pelicanidae: Pelecanus onocrotalus in South West Africa (Namibia). 18 699 - 710

Sauer EGF 1971. Interspecific behaviour of the South African Ostrich. Ostrich Supplement 8 91 - 103

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1969.9639113#.VGoZF1ItBHg

Sauer EGF, Sauer EM 1967. Verhaltungsfoschung an wilden Straussen in Südwestafrika. Umschau in Wissenschaft und Techniek 67 652 - 657

Sauer EGF, Sauer EM 1966. The behaviour and ecology of the South African Ostrich. Living Bird 5 45 - 75

Sauer EGF, Sauer EM 1966. Social behaviour of the South African Ostrich Struthio camelus australis. Ostrich Supplement (6) 183 - 191

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1966.9639797#.VHbkX2ctBHg

Maclean GL 1975. Belly-soaking in the Charadriiformes. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 72 74 - 82

Maclean GL 1973. The Sociable Weaver. Part 5. Food, feeding and general behaviour. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 44 (3-4) 254 - 261

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1973.9639162#.VRpbGGf9kpE

Hauptfleisch M, Urban S 2017. Nocturnal creatures that serve us diligently. 20-23

Website link:http://www.news-namibia.org/index.html

Lowrey A 1977. Chanting Goshawk (R165) hunting behaviour. Laniarius 8 11 - 12

Immelmann K, Sossinka R 1974. Song and territorial behaviour in Palearctic migrants in southern Africa. Journal of the SWA Scientific Society 18 67 - 71

Marsh AC 1985. Thermal responses and temperature tolerance in a diurnal desert ant, Ocymyrmex barbiger. Physiological Zoology 58 (6) 629-636

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/30156067

Marden JH 1987. In pursuit of females: following and contest behavior by males of a Namib Desert tenebrionid beetle, Physadesmia globosa. Ethnology 75 (1) 15-24

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0310.1987.tb00638.x/abstract

Grimes LG 1976. The occurrence of cooperative breeding behaviour in African birds. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 47 (1) 1 - 15

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1976.9639530#.VRuj3Gf9kpE

Kinlund P 1996. Does Land Degradation Matter? Perspectives on Environmental Change in North East Botswana. 7

Website link:http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19996777972.html;jsessionid=5012A2A57E55859E4BBF68A5506246D7

Farkas T 1962. Zur biologie und ethologie der Sud-afrikanischen Arten der Gattung Monticola (Boie). Vogelwelt 84 97 - 116

Ebert JI 1978. Comparability between hunter-gatherer groups in the past and present: Modernization versus explanation. Botswana Notes and Records 10 19-26

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979534

Cox GW 1983. Foraging behaviour of the Dune Lark. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 54 (2) 113 - 120

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1983.9634454#.VGm4-1ItBHg

Oakes EJ, Barnard P 1994. Fluctuating asymmetry and mate choice in Paradise Whydahs, Vidua paradisaea - an experimental manipulation. Animal Behaviour 48 (4) 937 - 943

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347284713194

Conti E, Viglianisi FM 2005. Ecology of the calling song of two Namibian armoured ground crickets, Acanthoplus longipes and Acanthoproctus diadematus (Orthoptera Tettigoniidae Hetrodinae). Ethology, Ecology and Evolution 17 (3) 261-269

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08927014.2005.9522596#.VGocblItBHg

Bates MF, Nuttall R 2013. A case of death-feigning in the Striped Grass Snake Psammophylax tritaeniatus (Günther), with a review on the occurrence of this phenomenon in Southern and Eastern African snakes. 5-9

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Maclean GL 1975. Belly-soaking in the Charadriiformes. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 72 74 - 82

Maclean GL 1973. The Sociable Weaver. Part 5. Food, feeding and general behaviour. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 44 (3-4) 254 - 261

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1973.9639162#.VRpbGGf9kpE

Cohen SA, Prayag G, Moital M 2014. Consumer behaviour in tourism: Concepts, influences and opportunities. Current Issues in Tourism (17) 872-909

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2007. Human-Elephant Conflict Mitigation: A Training Course for Community-Based Approaches in Africa. Participant's Manual.

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Hocutt CH, Johnson PN 2001. Fish response to the annual flooding regime in the Kavango River along the Angola/Namibia border. African Journal of Marine Science 23 449-464

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Orford J, Orford R, Orford MPJ, Cunningham P 2013. Nest construction by Barred Wren Warbler in Central Namibia. Ornithological Observations 4 151-153

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