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Citizen Science Week #1 from 19 to 27 September 2020: BirdPix in South Africa

Posted on 16/09/2020 by admin

The first Citizen Science Week of the 2020/2021 season starts this Saturday 19 September 2020, and runs to the end of the following weekend, Sunday 27 September...

Biodiversity/Biodiversity Observations/Bird ringing/Citizen Science/Site report

Birds of Fort Fordyce Reserve

Posted on 02/02/2020 by admin

Craig AJFK, and Hulley PE. 2020. The birds of Fort Fordyce Reserve, Eastern Cape. Biodiversity Observations 11.1:1-16 Biodiversity Observations is an open acces...

BDInsight/Biodiversity/Bird ringing/BirdPix/Citizen Science/Karoo/News/OdonataMAP/Virtual Museum

BDInsight – January 2020

Posted on 26/01/2020 by admin

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...

Biodiversity Observations/Citizen Science

Hippo cannibalism

Posted on 25/12/2019 by admin

de Castro JJ, de Castro M, de Castro JA, and Ruiz Teixidor P. 2019. Hippo cannibalism. Biodiversity Observations 10.14:1-3 Biodiversity Observations is an open ...

Biodiversity Observations/Bird ringing/Citizen Science

Elegant/Sandwich tern hybrid

Posted on 25/12/2019 by admin

O’Connell B. 2019. Elegant/Sandwich tern hybrid – Cape Recife, Port Elizabeth (The French Connection). Biodiversity Observations 10.13:1-5 Biodiversity Ob...

Figure 2. A live adult female leopard tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis) removed from a dirt road near Lambert’s Bay, Western Cape, South Africa; well outside of the species presumed native range.
Biodiversity/Biodiversity Observations/Citizen Science

Leopard tortoise road mortality

Posted on 24/12/2019 by admin

Baxter-Gilbert J, and Riley JL. 2019. Leopard tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis) road mortality and extralimital occurrence in Western Cape, South Africa. Biodive...

Figure 1: Trend in ringing effort over fifteen years from 2003 to 2017
Biodiversity Observations/Bird ringing/Citizen Science/Uncategorized

SAFRING Ringing Report for 2017

Posted on 23/12/2019 by admin

Paijmans DM, Rose S, Oschadleus HD, and Thomson RL. 2019. SAFRING Ringing Report for 2017. Biodiversity Observations 10.11:1-11 Biodiversity Observations is an ...

Fig 2. With 516 records, Hagenomyia tristis is the second most frequently recorded species in the LacewingMAP database. There are 154 photographic records. This photograph was taken by Bernardine Altenroxel near Mooketsi, Limpopo. This record is curated at http://vmus.adu.org.za/?vm=LacewingMAP-596
Biodiversity Observations

LacewingMAP progress report

Posted on 03/05/2019 by admin

Mansell M, Underhill LG, and Navarro R. 2019. LacewingMAP – Progress report on the Atlas of African Neuroptera and Megaloptera, 2014 – 2019. Biodive...

Re-launch of IBC, IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria, 13 February 2016 (Photo credit: Babajide Agboola)
Biodiversity Observations

Contributions of the Ibadan Bird Club

Posted on 23/04/2019 by admin

Awoyemi AG and Bown D. 2019. Bird conservation in Africa – the contributions of the Ibadan Bird Club. Biodiversity Observations 10.9:1-12 Biodiversity Obs...

Adult female, the tail of a lizard still sticking out of her beak. Safring ring number 723669, ringed north of Witvlei, Namibia (22 deg 24'S; 18 deg 30'E).
Biodiversity Observations/Bird ringing/Citizen Science

Greedy Southern Pale Chanting Goshawk

Posted on 20/04/2019 by admin

Franke-Bryson U. 2019. Greedy southern pale chanting goshawk Melierax canorus. Biodiversity Observations 10.8:1-7 Biodiversity Observations is an open access el...

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