The Bald and the Beautiful
Today I want to share one of my paintings that celebrates the beauty of the Southern Bald Ibis, Geronticus calvus. This species is near and dear to me.&nbs...
Category: Citizen Science
The Comrades Butterfly… BDI interviews citizen scientist Luelle Watts
Luelle Watts is an amazing woman and LepiMAPper extraordinaire. She has snapped and mapped 1632 LepiMAP records to date, all while training for South AfricaR...
Spreading the Seeds of Light
On Saturday, 20 July 2019, I was lucky enough to join the Saturday Girls for their Career Guidance Day at the New Dawn Centre in Acornhoek, Mpumalanga. I was as...
Peregrine takes plover
On 14 November 2016 Kyle Walker collected Peregrine pellets in Scarborough, Cape Town, in on-going monitoring of Peregrine nests on the Cape Peninsula. Kyle was...
A Rainbow of Landscapes – PART THREE
Today our journey continues onward to the KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape midlands. The midlands are mostly undulating, moist grasslands, but there are lovely &#...
Africa is home… BDI interviews citizen scientist Chris Meyer
How did you become a citizen scientist? What was the catalyst that got you going? Having spent my early years growing up on a farm in Zimbabwe, then spending ma...
A Rainbow of Landscapes – PART TWO
Last week we took a look at the wonderful landscapes of the central plateau of South Africa. From the vast open plains of the central Karoo to the rolling red d...
Passionate about Nigerian birds and butterflies… BDI interviews citizen scientist Abubakar S. Ringim
Abubakar Surajo Ringim obtained his MSc in Conservation Biology from the University of Dar es Salaam. He is a keen bird atlaser and BioMAPper and he is actively...
Atlas maps: choice of grid scale
Traditionally, we have used the quarter-degree grid scale to generate distribution maps in biodiversity atlases. In southern Africa, this convention started wit...
Longevities of shrikes, bush-shrikes and helmet-shrikes
The shrikes, bush-shrikes and helmet-shrikes were formerly all classed together in one family, but have been split into separate bird families (shrikes, bush-sh...