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Category: Citizen Science

Citizen Science/Virtual Museum

BestYear by 21%: There were 93,482 Virtual Museum records in 2018

Posted on 06/01/2019 by Les Underhill

The Virtual Museum had its BestYear ever in 2018, by a margin of 21%. The total for 2018 was 93,482 records. The totals for 2017 and 2016 were 75,408 and 73,104...

Archive/Biodiversity/Citizen Science/ReptileMAP/Virtual Museum

A poor documentation of a local extinction: Cape Dwarf Chameleon

Posted on 04/01/2019 by Les Underhill

Where have all the chameleons gone? For many years, I could find a Cape Dwarf Chameleon almost on demand in my garden in Rondebosch. If a visitor wanted to see ...

Biodiversity/Citizen Science

Do lots of Citizen Science in 2019

Posted on 01/01/2019 by Les Underhill

15 Citizen Science ideas for 2019 Keep your favourite camera handy! Grab all the opportunities which present themselves to take photos for the Virtual Museum. D...

Biodiversity/Citizen Science

Alien opportunities: 10 bird species with feral populations in South Africa

Posted on 23/12/2018 by Les Underhill

Research opportunities on alien birds Although alien species are widely (and rightly) regarded as a “bad thing”, they offer special opportunities for research! ...

Citizen Science/News

Camera Trapping for BioMAPping!

Posted on 18/12/2018 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

If you enjoy wildlife documentaries or scientific articles, you’ve probably seen photos or video taken by “camera traps.” Remote cameras have been used for year...

Archive/Biodiversity/Birding/Birds/Citizen Science/Trip report/Virtual Museum

Calvinia BioBash: Citizen Science in the Hantam

Posted on 16/12/2018 by Les Underhill

The Hantam is the general area north of Calvinia in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. It’s an arid area, and poorly covered in biodiversity surveys. C...

Biodiversity Observations/Citizen Science

OdonataMAP progress report

Posted on 14/11/2018 by admin

Loftie-Eaton M, Underhill LG, and Navarro R. 2018. OdonataMAP – Progress report on the Atlas of the Dragonflies and Damselflies of Africa – 2016/17 ...

Biodiversity Observations/Citizen Science

Sickle-winged Chat seasonality

Posted on 14/11/2018 by admin

de Swardt DH. 2018. Notes on the seasonal occurrence of Sickle-winged Chats Cercomela sinuata in the central Free State with notes on their seasonality. Biodive...

Barbet Percher - Photo credit: Craig Peter
Biodiversity Observations/Citizen Science

Odonata of the Kruger National Park

Posted on 13/11/2018 by admin

Underhill LG, Loftie-Eaton M and Navarro R. 2018. Odonata of the Kruger National Park. Biodiversity Observations 9.11:1-16 Biodiversity Observations is an open ...

Citizen Science

What’s the value of a photo?

Posted on 02/11/2018 by Les Underhill

The take home message has to be that the value of photographic records to biodiversity mapping at the species level, as done by the Virtual Museum, is massive.

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