2,406 records received 25th April- 24th July Total records to date are 201,620 Continued excellent coverage in South Africa, Namibia and Senegambia The most dominant country in terms of observations for the period was South Africa, accounting for almost half the total number of records (48%), whilst the next best coverage was provided for […]
14,169 records received 1st January- 24th April A major update from Tanzanian Bird Atlas A fantastic contribution of records from the National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project Other highlights include more data from Angola, Mauritania, Malawi and Uganda Total records to date are 199,214 To name a few, highlights from the last few months included records from Malawi from Andre Botha, with observations of African Goshawk and Lizard […]
6,425 records received during December Highlights include records from Mauritania, Angola and more than 4000 records from Tanzania Total records end of December 2017 at 190,214 December was a great month for ARDB submissions with more than 6,000 records logged; 70% of these records came from the Tanzania Bird Atlas team for 2015-2016 and show a wide geographical spread of incidental observations by car. Many thanks to Neil Baker […]
1,242 records received during November Highlights include records from Nigeria and Northern Botswana Total records end of November 2017 at 183,789 We were delighted to receive an incidental observation from Nigeria where Michael Manja recorded a Hooded Vulture. The last time we received data from Nigeria was in March 2017 and is relatively under-represented on the database. Andre Botha also submitted valuable observations from a road survey in […]
5,369 records received during October Highlights include records from Cape Verde islands and historical data from Volker Salewski for Senegal Total records end of October 2017 at 182,547 October was a great month for contributions with more than half of these (3053) coming from road surveys in Ethiopia carried out by Evan Buechley, Andre de la Cruz, Gabriel Gaucal, Juan Ramirez and Monte Neate-Klegg. Evan Buechley (pictured left) is […]
3,147 records received in September Highlights include records from Djibouti and Ethiopia from Evan Buechley and team Total records end of September 2017 at 177,178 This month saw a surge in contributions to the ARDB with a 3-fold increase on last months contributions. A real highlight this month was receiving data for Djibouti and Ethiopia from road surveys and the big migration count conducted by Evan Buchley, Andres de […]
1,170 records received in August Highlights include records from Ara Monadjem for Mozambique, Western Kenya data from Washington Wachira, and Spanish data! from Jose Tavares Total records end of August 2017 at 174,031 Records this month continued to be steady from regular contributors. Dirk Heinrich provided a good proportion of all records (108 records) with his incidental observations from north Namibia and the Caprivi Strip. A highlight from the Europe […]
4,145 records received in July Highlights include more than 1,800 spreadsheet observations from Ronelle Visagie & Bram Piot Total records now at 172,966 This month we received two large contributions to the data bank via spreadsheet that swelled the observation tally; Ronelle Visagie provided 1,084 road survey observations from South Africa and Bram Piot sent us 803 incidental observations from Cameroon, Niger, Ghana, Cote D’Ivoire, Liberia, Guinea and Senegal. Regular […]
1,048 records received in June Highlights include 175 observations (17 % of all records) from Erik Brohaugh in The Gambia Total records now at 168,821 Records this month showed a steady flow from our regular contributors in Senegambia, Europe, Kenya, South Africa, Namibia and Botswana. Erik and Asaph Brohaugh made a significant contribution with 175 records from The Gambia. Last month we featured Clive Barlow as a contributor to ARDB […]
3,042 records received during MayNotable observations from Saudi ArabiaTotal records in ARDB now 168,030
1,562 records received during AprilSignificant data from MadagascarTotal records in ARDB now 164,988 Observers continued to be busy during April sending in a total of 1562 records to the data bank, raising the ARDB tally from 163,130 to 164,988 observations; almost 165,000 observations now that’s a milestone to celebrate! The database has enjoyed a 20% increase in data since April last year and observations submitted during April this year were […]
Contributions to the ARDB were less for March but still steady with 1496 records added raising the data bank tally from 161,634 to 163,130 observations.
2,833 records received during FebruaryHistoric records of Egyptian Vulture sightings addedTotal records in ARDB now 161,634
The ARDB got off to an amazing start in 2017 with 6050 records added in January raising the data bank tally from 152,739 to 158,801 observations We have a new helper at the ARDB, Dr Lou Luddington who is able to come in and help with ARDB data and newsletters on Monday mornings. Lou is a marine biologist and obtained her PhD at Bangor University, North Wales with a study […]
1,394 records were added in December taking the data bank tally from 151,329 to 152,723 observations.Click on the image for a high resolution map: We thought you might like to see some of the characters involved with the ARDB project; one who works tirelessly ‘behind the scenes’ to keep the technologies operational is Andrew Rayner (image 1) our developer who is from South Africa but now lives near Habitat Info […]
November proved to be a prolific month with 6,733 records added taking the data bank tally from 144,671 to 151,329 observations. click on the image for a high resolution map: Highlights this month included more than 2,500 historical and recent observations from Volker Salewski and a further 592 observations from Bram Piot for west Africa which provided much needed data for this region. Data from surveys organised around the 14th […]
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 […]
What a year 2014 has been! We’ve seen the database nearly double in size, the launch of an offline Android app, the ARDB receive its own ‘branding’ and the beginning of the species distribution modelling stage! The full annual review can be downloaded here. Thanks, The ARDB team
1,081 records received during December Total records in the ARDB now stands at 102,971 4,253 kilometers traveled over 6.7 days in Android app’s survey mode Quieter on the spread sheets but the app takes another leap forwards… Since our last update for the month of November we have received an additional 1,081 records via the Android mobile app. All users and their respective contributions for December are listed below. During […]
100,000 record milestone! 1,201 records received bringing the total to 101,938! 724 records received via Android app 3,325 kilometres travelled over 124 hours in Android app’s survey mode Rare find in Botswana! More data in via African Raptor Observations and a rare find in Botswana. New data has been received by spread sheet (see the table below) from Andre Botha (309, South Africa) and the West Africa Bird Database (WABDAB) […]