Heat stress in fynbos birds update

In early April this year I'm heading of to the British Ornithologists' Union meeting in Leicester, UK, to present some of Robyn Milne's awesome looking data on heat stress in Cape Fynbos birds. Robyn is an MSc student at UCT who I'm co-supervising, together with Dr Susie Cunningham and Dr Alan Lee.
Compared to birds I've studied elsewhere in South Africa over the years, these fynbos birds really don't seem to like the heat much. This is no wonder since it seldom gets far over 30 degrees Celsius in the mountains of the Cape Fynbos region.

Well done Robyn for taking the student prize for best poster at the Biodiversity South Africa Meeting in Cape Town in December 2013!

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