Shoot the Dragons Week – Spring 2018
Dragons do exist, and they’ve been around for over 300 million years! They might not breathe fire, but they do have six legs, four wings, and extremely keen eye...
Category: Citizen Science
Turner of chaos into order … BDI interviews citizen scientist Bernardine Altenroxel
Bernardine Altenroxel has recently graduated cum laude with a BSc(Hons) in Geography from the University of South Africa (UNISA). So, with her studies behind he...
No citizen science, no future … BDI interviews Tony Archer
BDI travels to Klerksdorp to talk to an outstanding citizen scientist, Tony Archer. Tony has been involved with the second bird atlas since it started, and it i...
Birding plus numbers! I absolutely love both … BDI interviews Lisl van Deventer
Lisl van Deventer has birded extensively at many exciting destinations. Before she travels, she invests a lot of time learning the key features of the birds she...
Dispatches from Rwanda
On the 20th of May I travelled to Rwanda to attend the JRS Biodiversity Foundation’s annual Partners Symposium in Kigali. The symposium is a great opportunity f...
Citizen science in Nigeria: BDI interviews the founder of the South West Atlas Team
Adewale Awoyemi is a young citizen scientist, who lives with birds in the Sunbird Bush, about 7 km north of the city of Ibadan in southwestern Nigeria. He is cu...
A champion citizen scientist in Vanrhynsdorp
Salome Willemse is a citizen scientist in Vanrhynsdorp, in the northwestern corner of the Western Cape, just south of one of South Africa’s most important centr...
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...
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 ...