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Category: Citizen Science

Citizen Science/Citizen scientist profile/News

Citizen science in Nigeria: BDI interviews the founder of the South West Atlas Team

Posted on 18/05/2018 by admin

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...

Citizen Science/Citizen scientist profile/News/Vanrhynsdorp

A champion citizen scientist in Vanrhynsdorp

Posted on 17/05/2018 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

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...

Bird ringing/Citizen Science

Why studying African birds’ varied migration patterns is so important

Posted on 15/05/2018 by Les Underhill

A white-throated swallow, one of several intra-African migratory birds. Photo credit: MartinMaritz/Shutterstock -oo0oo- Les Underhill recently published this pi...

Citizen Science/News

Birds and barbed wire

Posted on 08/05/2018 by Les Underhill

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...

Citizen Science/News

International Citizen Science Day in The Company’s Garden

Posted on 14/04/2018 by Les Underhill

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 ...

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