Benfontein

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Details

Country
South Africa
Species
Sociable weaver
Pipeline
No
Running period
1993–Present
ID data
Colour rings
Metal rings
Environmental data
Rainfall
Temperature
Individual data
Morphological measures
Parasites data
Genetic data
Blood samples collected
Basic breeding
Yes
Winter data
Roosting checks
Winter ringing
Feeding at nest data
No
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General Information 
Responsible partyRita Covas (rita.covas@gmail.com, ORCID: 0000-0001-7130-144X)
ContactFranck Theron (f.benfontein@gmail.com) 
OrganisationCIBIO
Other team members 
Data availabilityno data available through SPI-Birds
Data license 
FundingFCT (Portugal, grants IF/01411/2014/CP1256/CT0007 and PTDC/BIA-EVF/5249/2014) and ERC (EU, Consolidator grant 866489), ANR (France, grants 15-CE32-0012-02 and 19-CE02-0014-01), DST-NRF Centre of Excellence at the Fitzpatrick Institute of African Ornithology University of Cape Town (South Africa), OSU-OREME, and the CNRS programme on Long-Term Studies in Ecology and Evolution (SEE-Life)
Study site 
NameBenfontein
IDBFN
CountrySouth Africa
Size (ha)2500
Major site changesLarge fire in 2021 destroyed 65% of colonies
Latitude (decimal degrees N)-28.876
Longitude (decimal degrees E)24.8506
Minimum elevation (m)1080
Maximum elevation (m)1120
Number of nests (min) 
Number of nests (max) 
HabitatSavanna
Description of study sitehttps://sociableweaverproject.com/ 
Data 
SpeciesPhiletairus socius
Start year1993
End year 
Continuous collection of dataYes
Gap years 
Longest data collection 
Taggingmetal leg ring, transponder, coloured leg ring
Brood data collectedbrood size, clutch size, fledge date, fledgling number, hatch date, lay date, clutch type
Individual data collectedsize (weight, wing, tarsus, etc.), plumage characteristics, immigration status, age, parasites
Environmental data collectedpredation, rainfall, temperature
Genetic data collectedblood
Experimental manipulationsYes
Description of experimental manipulations 
Other activitiesmonitoring second broods, roosting checks, winter tagging

Details

Country
South Africa
Species
Sociable weaver
Pipeline
No
Running period
1993–Present
ID data
Colour rings
Metal rings
Environmental data
Rainfall
Temperature
Individual data
Morphological measures
Parasites data
Genetic data
Blood samples collected
Basic breeding
Yes
Winter data
Roosting checks
Winter ringing
Feeding at nest data
No