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A land mass, especially one smaller than a continent, entirely surrounded by water. (Source: AMHER)

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Komen J, Myer E 1991. Hunting 'traotraos' and other birds in Madagascar. Lanioturdus 26 (1) 42-50

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Hunting traotraos and other birds in Madagascar_1991.pdf	502.85 KB

Williams AJ 1989. Kelp gull feeding capacity. Lanioturdus 25 (1-2) 57-58

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Cape gull feeding capacity_1989.pdf	237.86 KB

Williams AJ, Komen J, Myer EJ 1986. Disorientated: A Broadbilled roller at Possession Island. Lanioturdus 22 (2) 35-36

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A Broadbilled roller at Possession Island_1986.pdf	213.01 KB

Smith BH 1981. Ichaboe Island. Lanioturdus 17 (5) 1-2

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Lakay A, Cunningham PL 2005. A dietary study of the Black Cormorant (Phalacrocorax neglectus) at Ichaboe and Mercury Islands. Lanioturdus 38 (1) 6-11

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A dietary study of the Black Cormorant at Ichaboe and Mercury Islands_2005.pdf	320.58 KB

Kemper J 2012. Of Sleepless Nights, Howling Wind and an Uncooperative Penguin: Tracking African Penguins at Halifax Island, Namibia. Lanioturdus 45 (2) 3-7

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Tracking African Penguins at Halifax Island_Namibia.pdf	366.45 KB

Hutchinson GE 1950. The biochemistry of vertebrate excretion. Survey of existing knowledge of biochemistry 3 1-554

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Survey of existing knowledge of biochemistry_Volume 3.pdf	107.29 MB

Kemper J 2014. Chicknapped! Two Kelp Gull chicks brooded and defended by an African Penguin at Halifax Island, Namibia. Ornithological Observations 5 11-16

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Wolski P, Murray-Hudson M, Fernkvist P, Liden A, Huntsman-Mapila P, Ramberg L 2005. Islands in the Okavango Delta as sinks of water-borne nutrients. Botswana Notes and Records 37 (Special Edition on Human Interactions and Natural Resource Dynamics in the Okavango Delta and Ngamiland) 253-263

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Islands in the Okavango Delta as sinks of water_borne nutrients.pdf	1.52 MB

Gumbricht T, McCarthy TS 2003. Spatial patterns of islands and salt crusts in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. South African Geographical Journal 85 (2) 164-169

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Spatial patterns of islands and salt crusts in the Okavango Delta.pdf	648.82 KB

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03736245.2003.9713797

Cooper J 1981. Biology of the Bank Cormorant, Part 1: Distribution, population size, movements and conservation. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 52 (4) 208 - 215

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1981.9633608#.VHyEtGctBHg

Cooper J 1977. Kelp Gull killing Hartlaub's Gull. Cormorant 3 18

Collar NJ, Stuart SN 1985. Threatened birds of Africa and related islands: The ICBP /IUCN Red Data Book.

Clement AJ 1981. Facts and figures on the islands off South West Africa. SWA Annual

McCarthy TS, Humphries MS, Mohamed I, le Roux P, Verhagen BTh 2012. Island forming processes in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Geomorphology 179 249-257

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X12004163

Humphries MS, McCarthy TS, Cooper GRJ, Stewart RA, Stewart RD 2014. The role of airborne dust in the growth of tree islands in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Geomorphology 206 307-317

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X13005199

Brooke RK 1971. Breeding of swifts in Ethiopian Africa and adjacent islands. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 42 (1) 5 - 36

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1971.9634389#.VRpCZWf9kpE

Broekhuysen GJ, Liversidge R, Rand RW 1961. The South African Gannet Morus capensis 1. Distribution and movements. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 32 (1) 1 - 19

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1961.9633066#.VRLP0Wc5ApE

Burke A, Jürgens N, Seely MK 1998. Floristic affinities of an inselberg archipelago in the southern Namib desert—relic of the past, centre of endemism or nothing special?. Journal of Biogeography 25 (2) 311-317

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2699.1998.252116.x/abstract

1988. Concern over a decline in seabirds. Bokmakierie 40 92

Website link:http://witsbirdclub.org.za/downloads/

1950. The bird islands of South West Africa. SWA Annual 83 - 91

1950. Ghwano - die wit weelde. SWA Annual 25 - 35

Thibault JC, Patrimonio O, Torre J 1992. Does the diurnal raptor community of Corsica (Western Mediterranean) show insular characteristics?. Journal of Biogeography 19 (4) 363 – 373

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2845564

Thiollay J-M 1993. Habitat segregation and the insular syndrome in 2 congeneric raptors in New Caledonia, the White-bellied Goshawk Accipiter haplochrous and the Brown Goshawk A. fasciatus. Ibis 135 (3) 237 – 246

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1993.tb02840.x/abstract

Watson AC 1930. The Guano Islands of Southwestern Africa. Geographical Review 20 (4) 631 - 641

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/209016

Rand RW 1956. Island populations of seabirds on Namibia's offshore islands.

Thiollay J-M, Meyburg B-U 1988. Forest fragmentation and the conservation of raptors: A survey on the island of Java. Biological Conservation 44 229 - 250

Website link:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0006320788900183

Shaughnessy PD, Meÿer MA 1979. An estimate of the Jackass Penguin population on Possession Island in 1977 and 1978. Cormorant 6 21 - 24

Terrblanche DJ 1980. The man-made island of Sandwich Harbour. SWA Annual 1980 89 - 95

Shaughnessy PD 1980. Influence of Cape Fur Seals on Jackass Penguin numbers at Sinclair Island. South African Journal of Wildlife Research 10 18 - 21

Website link:http://content.ajarchive.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/0379-4369&CISOPTR=868&REC=8

Shaughnessy PD 1977. Jackass Penguins on the northern guano islands. Cormorant 2 18 - 19

Seely MK, Louw GN 1973. Penguins in danger. SWA Annual 1973 44 - 47

Rand RW 1952. The birds of Hollamsbird Island, South West Africa. Ibis 94 452 - 455

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1952.tb01844.x/abstract

Rand RW 1951. Ichaboe - a renowned guano island. Farming in South Africa 26 273 - 275

Rand RW 1949. 3,000 Penguins find life tolerable. African Wildlife 3 153 - 155

Rand RW 1949. Birds observed on Sinclair's Island (South West Africa). Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 20 (3) 130 - 136

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1949.9638934#.VRJmBGc5ApE

Morrell LB 1844. Narrative of a voyage to the south west coast of Africa.

Moreau RE 1966. The birds faunas of Africa and its islands.

Morant P 1979. Seabird ringing in southern Africa 1948-1978. Cormorant 6 25 - 32

Morant PD 1977. Bird ringing at Tristan da Cunha and Gough Islands. South African Journal of Antarctic Research 7 23 - 26

Louw PR 1912. Description of Ichaboe Island. Ibis 54 (2) 263 - 268

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1912.tb05291.x/abstract

Livingston A 1844. Ichaboe Island - the guano trade. 307 - 313

Website link:https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008608517

Cooper J, Hockey PAR, Brooke RK 1985. Introduced mammals on South and South West African islands: History, effects on birds and control. Proceedings of the Birds and Man Symposium 179-203

Website link:http://www.fitzpatrick.uct.ac.za/fitz/publications/scientific/archive/1985

la Cock GD, Duffy DC, Cooper J 1987. Population dynamics of the African Penguin Spheniscus demersus at Marcus Island in the Benguela Upwelling System: 1979-85. Biological Conservation 40 (2) 117 - 126

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0006320787900620

Gurney JH 1913. The Gannets of Ichaboe Island. Ibis 1 155

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1913.tb06547.x/abstract

Biggs R 1975. An ecological survey of Chief's Island and the adjacent floodplain. Botswana Notes and Records 7 203-204

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979446

McCarthy TS, Ellery WN 1994. The effect of vegetation on soil and groundwater chemistry and hydrology of islands in the seasonal swamps of the Okavango Fan, Botswana. Journal of Hydrology 154 169 - 193

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The effect of vegetation on soil and groundwater chemistry and hydrology of islands in the seasonal swamps of the Okavango Fan.pdf	1.23 MB

Cordes I 1998. Population trends of seabird on the Namibian offshore islands. Focus on Fisheries and Research (January 1998) 143-145

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Population trends of seabird on the Namibian offshore islands.pdf	3.93 MB

Cordes I 1998. The Namibian offshore islands - a historical overview. Focus on Fisheries and Research (January 1998) 141-142

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The Namibian offshore islands_a historical overview.pdf	2.5 MB

McCarthy TS, Ellery WN 1997. The failure of the Nqoga Channel between Hamoga and Letenetso Islands, Northeastern Okavango delta. Botswana Notes and Records 27 129 - 150

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The failure of the Nqoga Channel between Hamoga and Letenetso Islands.pdf	1.08 MB