ARDB update: second quarter 2018
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…
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New intern and calm seas
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…
Summer in Rookwood
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…
ARDB update: first quarter 2018
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 …
Wild & Wintry Days
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…
ARDB update: December 2017
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…
ARDB update: November 2017
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…
ARDB update: October 2017
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…
Climate vulnerability mapping in northern Zambia
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…
ARDB update: September 2017
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….
ARDB update: August 2017
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…
Owl part II: Return to the Wild
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:
Owl in residence
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…
ARDB update: July 2017
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…
Swimming with jellies
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.
ARDB update: June 2017
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…
Rook rehab
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…
ARDB update: May 2017
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…
ARDB update: April 2017
1,562 records received during April Significant data from Madagascar Total 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…
New bird feeding station
We recently installed a bird feeding station at ARDB HQ and have attracted some great bird life! Goldfinch (second image) have been enjoying the sunflower hearts, whilst Great spotted woodpeckers prefer the peanuts – both images show male birds identified by the red patch…