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Bird ringing course at New Holme : 2 to 10 September (Part 2) : “rare is common and common is rare!”

Posted on 12/09/2023 by Les Underhill

Part 1 described the first five days of the bird ringing course at New Holme. Part 2 describes the last few days and does the overall wrap up. Let’s do th...

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Bird ringing at Vondeling, 17 to 20 August 2023

Posted on 21/08/2023 by Dieter Oschadleus

Two weeks after our previous bird ringing visit, we were again at Vondeling Wine Farm. This time we focused on species diversity. We caught 26 species in four d...

Archive/Bird ringing/Birds/Paardeberg/Trip report

Bird ringing at Vondeling, 3 to 6 August 2023

Posted on 07/08/2023 by Dieter Oschadleus

We had an enjoyable long weekend of bird ringing at Vondeling Wines. Although we are still deep in winter, the first signs of spring were evident, green shoots ...

Kitch garden bird
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Refreshment dip into Yzerfontein during lockdown

Posted on 10/01/2021 by Les Underhill

“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...

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BDInsight – October 2020

Posted on 02/11/2020 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

October has been a busy month full of awesome BDI Citizen Scientist Hour talks and a great BioBashing trip to the Klein Karoo! Here in the lowveld region of Sou...

Archive/Biodiversity/Trip report

Winter BioMAPping and Botanizing in Venda

Posted on 22/09/2020 by Willem van der Merwe (edited by Megan Loftie-Eaton)

On Friday, 12 June 2020, my friend Ruan Stander and I embarked on a reptile-and-plant-biomapping expedition in Venda. Venda is a wonderful and wild region in no...

BDInsight/Biodiversity/Citizen Science/LepiMAP/News/Trip report/Virtual Museum

BDInsight – July 2020

Posted on 01/08/2020 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

Life in lockdown has become almost normal. I, for one, have lost count of the number of days we’ve been in lockdown here in South Africa. We adapt to the ...

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BDInsight – February 2020

Posted on 29/02/2020 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

First BDI Citizen Science Conference, Karoo Gariep Nature Reserve, Hanover The really important things at conferences happen outside of the formal programme. Th...

European Bee-eater
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Karoo garden bird ringing, Vanrhynsdorp, January 2020

Posted on 27/01/2020 by Dieter Oschadleus

Not many gardens boast Karoo specials like European Bee-eater, Namaqua Warbler, and Lark-like Bunting. All these were ringed in a long weekend, as well as many ...

Cape Sugarbird
Bird ringing/Paardeberg/Trip report

Fynbos Estate expedition, 3-12 December 2019

Posted on 13/12/2019 by Dieter Oschadleus

Following a successful 10 day BDI bird ringing expedition earlier this year, another was held at Fynbos Estate in December. It was hot and windy but the days we...

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