The annual Cape Parrot Big Birding Day (CPBBD) is a wonderful way to assist in a conservation effort and often gets volunteers out to places they would rarely visit.
Each year a group of students from the University of KwaZulu-Natal assist in monitoring the forests around Ingeli in southern KZN. The forests there are typical of those where the Cape Parrots occur.
The importance of the annual CPBBD is highlighted by:
- giving information on population trends and numbers
- reporting on illegal hunting, cutting down of forests, and capture of parrots
- it gives important distribution data for the Cape parrot in South Africa
Download our reports
2023 report
Report on the 2023 Cape Parrot Big Birding Day, celebrating the 26th annual count and the Bird of the Year.
2022 report
Report on the 2022 Cape Parrot Big Birding Day, celebrating the 25th annual count.
2020 report*
*The Cape Parrot Big Birding Day 23rd annual count was during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. As a result, a few volunteers were able to participate, so there is data for this year but no formal report is available.
2016 report
Report on the 2016 Cape Parrot Big Birding Day and the 19th annual parrot count.
2015 report
Report on the 2015 Cape Parrot Big Birding Day and the 18th annual parrot count.
2014 report
Report on the 2014 Cape Parrot Big Birding Day and the 17th annual parrot count.
2013 report
Report on the 2013 Cape Parrot Big Birding Day and the 16th annual parrot count.
2012 report
Report on the 2012 Cape Parrot Big Birding Day and the 15th annual parrot count.
2011 report
Report on the 2011 Cape Parrot Big Birding Day and the 14th annual parrot count.
2010 report
Report on the 2010 Cape Parrot Big Birding Day and the 13th annual parrot count.