Why studying African birds’ varied migration patterns is so important
A white-throated swallow, one of several intra-African migratory birds. Photo credit: MartinMaritz/Shutterstock -oo0oo- Les Underhill recently published this pi...
Author: Les Underhill
Prof Les Underhill was Director of the Animal Demography Unit (ADU) at the University of Cape Town from its start in 1991 until he retired. Although citizen science in biology is Les’s passion, his academic background is in mathematical statistics. He was awarded his PhD in abstract multivariate analyses in 1973 at UCT and what he likes to say about his PhD is that he solved a problem that no one has ever had. He soon grasped that this was not the field to which he wanted to devote his life, so he retrained himself as an applied statistician, solving real-world problems.
Birds and barbed wire
Birds and barbed wire – by Les Underhill Barbed wire was invented in America in the 1860s, and used to keep cattle inside of camps, or outside of crops. W...
International Citizen Science Day in The Company’s Garden
International Citizen Science Day in The Company’s Garden – by Les Underhill All but one of the thousands of people in The Company’s Garden, in the heart ...
Paardeberg site report – 2018/04/07
By Les Underhill. Photo credits: Les Underhill and Dieter Oschadleus Team BDI explored the northwest corner of the Paardeberg on Saturday 7 April 2018. We visit...
Lacewings at Beaufort West, on the farm Little England
Lacewings are not one of the charismatic groups of insects, and have been poorly studied. They consume aphids and do pollination, so they are one of the key eco...