- 1,878 records received during January
- First significant data received for North Africa (Tunisia)
- Total records in the ARDB now stands at 105,890
- 9,829 kilometres travelled over 14.4 days in Android app’s survey mode
A great month with more records than ever received via the Android app and the ARDB’s first delivery of data for North Africa (Tunisia) courtesy of AAO (BirdLife Partner)
Since our last update for the month of December we have received an additional 1,876 records via the Android mobile app. This includes a huge 784 records from Andre Botha, 2 from Andrew Rayner (the app’s programmer who spent his holidays in South Africa) and 339 from Simon Thomsett (spanning June 2014 to January 2015) – thanks!
- Andre Botha – 784
- Simon Thomsett – 339
- Etienne Albertyn – 160
- Joseph Heymans – 118
- Kyle Mannheim – 70
- Walter Jubber – 67
- Dirk van Stuyvenberg – 65
- Stefan van Stuyvenberg – 63
- Anja Teroerde – 60
- Brian Waswala – 58
- Mark Brown – 48
- Andy Branfield – 20
- bruce wardsmith – 11
- Rob Davies – 4
- Troye Weston – 2
- Steven Evans – 2
- Joubert Heymans – 2
- Andrew Rayner – 2
- Danny Sapsford – 1
All Android app users and their respective contributions for December are listed in the table to the left. During January 352 surveys were carried out using the app which amounted to 9,829 km being travelled over 14.4 days.
We also received 2 records from Sebastian and Sarah Tham via the online iOS app – we’re hoping to have an offline app for iOS released at some point this year so sit tight…
We are extremely grateful to Hichem Azafzaf and his team at Association “Les Amis des Oiseaux” (AAO), the ARDB’s regional coordinator for North Africa who have submitted 1,405 records for Tunisia! This is the ARDB’s first significant data for North Africa so marks a big milestone in the development of the database – the database can be viewed at http://gis.habitatinfo.com/java/ardb_viewing/ – thanks Hichem! We’re looking forward to receiving more for Tunisia and neighbouring countries.
If you haven’t already then please check out the ARDB’s annual review for 2014 which can be downloaded from:
https://www.habitatinfo.com/ardb-annual-review-for-2014/
Best wishes,
Tim, Rob & the ARDB team
