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Category: Trip report

Kitch garden bird
Archive/BirdPix/Citizen Science/News/Trip report/Virtual Museum

Refreshment dip into Yzerfontein during lockdown

Posted on 10/01/2021 by Les Underhill

“Starting in my home grid cell on 1 January 2021, I will upload records to the Virtual Museum of as many species as possible (and I will be especially careful n...

Archive/BDInsight/News/Trip report

BDInsight – October 2020

Posted on 02/11/2020 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

October has been a busy month full of awesome BDI Citizen Scientist Hour talks and a great BioBashing trip to the Klein Karoo! Here in the lowveld region of Sou...

Archive/Biodiversity/Trip report

Winter BioMAPping and Botanizing in Venda

Posted on 22/09/2020 by Willem van der Merwe (edited by Megan Loftie-Eaton)

On Friday, 12 June 2020, my friend Ruan Stander and I embarked on a reptile-and-plant-biomapping expedition in Venda. Venda is a wonderful and wild region in no...

BDInsight/Biodiversity/Citizen Science/LepiMAP/News/Trip report/Virtual Museum

BDInsight – July 2020

Posted on 01/08/2020 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

Life in lockdown has become almost normal. I, for one, have lost count of the number of days we’ve been in lockdown here in South Africa. We adapt to the ...

Archive/BDInsight/Biodiversity/Citizen Science/Karoo/News/Trip report

BDInsight – February 2020

Posted on 29/02/2020 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

First BDI Citizen Science Conference, Karoo Gariep Nature Reserve, Hanover The really important things at conferences happen outside of the formal programme. Th...

European Bee-eater
Bird ringing/Karoo/Trip report/Vanrhynsdorp

Karoo garden ringing, Vanrhynsdorp, January 2020

Posted on 27/01/2020 by Dieter Oschadleus

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 ...

Cape Sugarbird
Bird ringing/Paardeberg/Trip report

Fynbos Estate expedition, 3-12 December 2019

Posted on 13/12/2019 by Dieter Oschadleus

Following a successful 10 day BDI bird ringing expedition earlier this year, another was held at Fynbos Estate in December. It was hot and windy but the days we...

farmstead
Bird ringing/Karoo/Trip report

Karoo ringing

Posted on 13/11/2019 by Dieter Oschadleus

  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...

Biodiversity/Citizen Science/Karoo/LepiMAP/MammalMAP/OdonataMAP/Site report/Trip report/Virtual Museum

Boegoeberg Dam BioBash: Where Kalahari Meets Karoo

Posted on 18/10/2019 by Karis Daniel

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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The BDI visits Roam Private Game Reserve

Posted on 03/09/2019 by Les Underhill

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...

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