African Oystercatcher (Haematopus moquini)
The African Oystercatcher Haematopus moquini is one of the iconic species of the coastline of the southwestern Africa. There is only one oystercatcher that bree...
Category: Citizen Science
Impacts of Rhodes on Biodiversity 3 : Common Starling
This is the third and final blog in this series on the impacts of Rhodes on biodiversity. The first blog talked about the Eastern Grey Squirrel. The second cove...
BDInsight – May 2021
Winter is around the corner here on the southern tip of Africa, in some areas winter has already arrived with a cold bang! We have some great BDI news to warm y...
BDInsight – March 2021
March has marched right past! And we are heading into the Easter holidays. We wish you all a wonderful Easter Weekend full of BioMAPping adventures! Read on for...
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...
Progress with BirdPix in the Free State during 2020
We will slowly work out way through projects and provinces! We have done BirdPix in the Western Cape. This map shows the number of bird species recorded for Bir...
Refreshment dip into Yzerfontein during lockdown
“Starting in my home grid cell on 1 January 2021, I will upload records to the Virtual Museum of as many species as possible (and I will be especially careful n...