We have placed our information sign on the wall near the gallery entrance at Habitat Info offices where visitors can read about the work we have done for nature recovery at Llanunwas over the past two years as part of the collaborative Nature Networks…
on a Christmasy New Year note we were really thrilled to discover that a small covey of the 13 grey partridge we released at Llanunwas in the summer have survived all this dreadful wind and rain and are living over the hedge on our…
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…
Last week we welcomed Luke Sutton to the team on a part-time summer internship. Supported by the Peregrine Fund, Luke will be working to build the Global Raptor Information Network’s (GRIN) database of global raptor observations by incorporating data from online databases, museum specimens, and…
It’s wonderful to experience the changing seasons in Rookwood. The mixed collection of sycamore, oak and ash trees sprout a thick canopy of leaves high above that throws the understorey in to deep, cool shade, whilst their trunks disappear beneath a rising undergrowth of…
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 …
We’ve had some unusually harsh winter weather recently caused by Storm Emma and the Beast from the East. The Pembrokeshire coast was swathed in snow and froze solid for several days. For the human residence it was mostly inconvenient with roads impassable as well…
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…
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…
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…
habitatINFO has just been contracted by OneWorld in Cape Town to help map climate vulnerability in the 4 provinces of northern Zambia. Like other projects this will be a high resolution update of information to provide hot spot maps which enable authorities and local…
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….
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…
In our last post we were providing refuge and rehab for a barn owl found on a roadside by Ffion Rees. Happy that she had fully recovered Ffion released owl back to the wild one evening last week:
This week we have another rescued bird under observation in the Hawk Hotel at HabitatInfo. Found at night on the side of the road by Ffion, local skipper of Falcon Boats she took it home for a few nights before checking it in…
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…
The HabitatInfo/ARDB office is located a few minutes walk from the glorious Pembrokeshire coast and the sea has been very inviting of-late with lots of jellyfish to marvel at. This beautiful Compass jellyfish was among them, photo taken by Lou Luddington.
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…
Over the last 5 weeks or so we’ve been providing refuge and rehab to a rook that arrived in the courtyard with a broken leg. Local vet Tom Bailey came to take a look and used a finger splint to immobilize the leg. After…
3,042 records received during May Notable observations from Saudi Arabia Total records in ARDB now 168,030 May proved to be an active month for contributors with double the number of observations for last month. Notable records came in from Brian Waswala for Saudi…