Table 3. Habitat selection by Secretarybirds observed in the CAR project in the seven provinces in which the CAR project operates, in summer (S) and winter (W) counts.
Province | Season | Jacobs index | Natural | Transformed | Sign test p value |
Eastern Cape | S | 0.466 | 42 | 9 | <0.001*** |
W | 0.300 | 45 | 11 | <0.001*** | |
Free State | S | 0.662 | 128 | 20 | <0.001*** |
W | 0.578 | 158 | 25 | <0.001*** | |
Gauteng | S | 0.220 | 9 | 3 | 0.083 |
W | 0.380 | 16 | 4 | 0.007** | |
KwaZulu-Natal | S | 0.647 | 44 | 5 | <0.001*** |
W | 0.419 | 40 | 10 | <0.001*** | |
Mpumalanga | S | 0.361 | 20 | 5 | 0.003** |
W | 0.200 | 17 | 11 | 0.257 | |
Northern Cape | S | 0.136 | 64 | 2 | <0.001*** |
W | –0.058 | 49 | 2 | <0.001*** | |
Western Cape | S | 0.226 | 27 | 16 | 0.093 |
W | 0.413 | 26 | 19 | 0.297 |