Karoo garden ringing, Vanrhynsdorp, January 2020
Not many gardens boast Karoo specials like European Bee-eater, Namaqua Warbler, and Lark-like Bunting. All these were ringed in a long weekend, as well as many ...
Category: Karoo
BDInsight January 2020
Happy New Year and Century! We hope you all had a lovely festive season and that 2020 will be a fantastic year. Why not kick-start the year by joining us at our...
The Armoured Tail-Eater
South Africa has an amazing diversity of reptile species and today we feature the awesome spiky critter known as the Armadillo Girdled Lizard Ouroborus cataphra...
Karoo ringing
Farm houses in the Karoo can be oases for birds, allowing relatively many birds to be ringed. Les, Karis and I visited New Holme guest farm (Karoo Gariep...
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BDInsight – October 2019
October has been hot hot hot, and so too is our BDI Newsletter. We have lots of exciting news and upcoming events to share with you. Upcoming Events Shoot The D...
Biodiversity/Citizen Science/Karoo/LepiMAP/MammalMAP/OdonataMAP/Site report/Trip report/Virtual Museum
Boegoeberg Dam BioBash: Where Kalahari Meets Karoo
The interface of Kalahari and Karoo is a study in contrasts: red sands and blue skies; dry earth and flowing river; bustling weaver colonies and deserted towns....
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BDInsight – September 2019
September flew by! Where is the year going? We hope you are all enjoying the Spring weather and getting ready for a great Summer of biodiversity explorations an...
Rabbits at The Riverside
When people think of threatened species, they tend to think of big and “spectacular” species like whales, tigers, rhinos, or pandas. It is true that...
Biodiversity/BirdPix/Citizen Science/Karoo/LepiMAP/MammalMAP/News/OdonataMAP/Site report/Trip report/Virtual Museum
The BDI visits Roam Private Game Reserve
Five years ago, the Post family bought a 5000 ha property in the Karoo which had been used for hunting, turned it into a biodiversity conservation area, and ren...
A Rainbow of Landscapes – PART ONE
Biodiversity can be assessed at several levels. We can look at genetic diversity at species level, we can look at the diversity among different species, or we c...