Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)
Identification The yellow feet are the diagnostic. The only problem arises is when the feet are underwater, like this: Usually, if you wait a little while and w...
Category: Biodiversity
Birds on the coastline of the Western Cape
The focus here is on learning the really common birds you can expect to see on the coastline in the Western Cape. These are the species you are most likely to e...
The Virtual Museum
The Virtual Museum (VM) provides the platform for citizen scientists to contribute to biodiversity projects. This innovative concept was originally developed by...
African Black Oystercatcher (Haematopus moquini)
Identification African Black Oystercatchers, especially the adults, are one of the easiest bird species to identify. It is the only species along the African co...
Impacts of Rhodes on Biodiversity 3 : Common Starling
This is the third and final blog in this series. The first blog talked about the Eastern Grey Squirrel. The second covered four of the five bird species that Ce...
Online guide to the Neuroptera (lacewings and antlions) of southern Africa
This set of postings provides an online guide to Neuroptera in southern Africa. This order includes the insects commonly known as lacewings and as antlions. The...
BirdPix on a run in 2021
BirdPix is important because it is going to be used to test whether “species distribution models” can be used to generate maps that look like the bi...
How do you refresh a butterfly? You LepiMAP it in 2021!
The take home message of this blog is one of disappointment! But the reality is that we have never looked at the butterflies in LepiMAP in this way before. Beca...
BDInsight – January 2021
The first month of the new year is already behind us! For January 2021 BioMAPpers managed to snap and map almost 10,000 records on biodiversity. Amazingly well ...
Starting from scratch : OdonataMAP in 2021
We lost all the data***. Now we need to be starting from scratch! This is not such a crazy idea. It is so easy to think. I know that the Red-veined Dropwing has...