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Category: Trip report

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Spreading the Seeds of Light

Posted on 30/07/2019 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

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...

Citizen Science/Karoo/Trip report/Virtual Museum

Namaqua BioBash 2019: Citizen Science in the Karoo

Posted on 25/06/2019 by Karis Daniel

Five days in the Northern Cape with a team of avid birders?! It sounds like a dream come true, and for me, that dream recently became a reality. Wednesday, June...

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Bird ringing/Paardeberg/Trip report

Colour ringing birds at Fynbos Estate

Posted on 25/06/2019 by Dieter Oschadleus

Bird ringing was conducted at Fynbos Estate from 17-21 June 2019, with two students from France, as part of their field project. During the ringing sessions Emi...

Biodiversity/Bird ringing/Citizen Science/Trip report/Virtual Museum

Virtual Museuming at Mwamba Conservation Centre, A Rocha Kenya

Posted on 04/06/2019 by Les Underhill

Mwamba is the Conservation Centre of A Rocha Kenya. It is on the coast, and offshore is the Watamu Marine National Park. Just inland is the Arabuko-Sokoke Fores...

Citizen Science/Trip report/Virtual Museum

Filling in the Gaps: Citizen Science on the Road

Posted on 04/06/2019 by Karis Daniel

An early start at 5:45 a.m. enabled us to reach Matjiesfontein railway station just after first light. We were traveling from Cape Town to Hanover in the Northe...

Biodiversity/Citizen Science/Trip report

… participating in a Tropical Biology Association course in Nairobi

Posted on 03/06/2019 by Les Underhill

It was a great privilege to be part of the team teaching at a course for the Tropical Biology Association in Nairobi during April. The course was called “...

Biodiversity/Citizen Science/Trip report/Virtual Museum

BirdPixing in Yzerfontein

Posted on 07/05/2019 by Les Underhill

On Sunday morning, 5 May 2019, the grid cell “Yzerfontein” had 15 BirdPix* records for 12 species. This called for an intervention! In the form of a...

Bird ringing/Citizen Science/Paardeberg/Trip report

Establishing a long-term bird ringing site. Part 2: some birds

Posted on 05/03/2019 by Les Underhill

Part 1 of this series described the bird ringing site at Fynbos Estate. This property, partly wine farm and partly nature reserve, is in the northwestern corner...

Bird ringing/Citizen Science/Paardeberg/Trip report

Establishing a long-term bird ringing site. Part 1: the place

Posted on 04/03/2019 by Les Underhill

Bird ringers in Europe and bird banders in North America will both be familiar with the concept of a “bird observatory”. The concept even has an art...

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

Dwarf Blue refreshed after 142 years

Posted on 03/03/2019 by Les Underhill

What are all these citizen scientists focused on? The temperature in the Robertson Valley is a warm 32°C. It is 1pm on 2 March 2019. They are taking photographs...

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