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Researcher heaven : publications on biodiversity on Robben Island

Posted on 01/07/2025 by Les Underhill

Imagine. You are a new postgraduate student on Robben Island. You know you have lots of predecessors, and that you need to read up on all the research has alrea...

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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...

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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 ...

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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.

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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

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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

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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)

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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).

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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...

Figure 12: The ravens killed, dismembered, and ate the spotted thick-knee. (c) PS Wairasho.

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Dwarf ravens prey on thick-knee

Posted on 05/04/2019 by admin

Wairasho PS. 2019. Dwarf ravens kill and eat a spotted thick-knee – previously undocumented behavior of the dwarf raven or Somali crow. Biodiversity Obser...