Not a good start to the year

And they are off! Fancy some live birding? Watch The Swazi Birding Spectacular’ unfold live: birdlasser.com/events/szbbdja… - can they beat last year’s total of 327?

Preventing seabird bycatch in longline fisheries is achievable through a number of simple measures, including using bird-scaring lines to keep birds away from the danger zone, using line-weighting to sink hooks faster, and by setting lines... bit.ly/albatrossandal…

Review on using occupancy models with citizen science data by Jim Nichols and me besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… SEEC Stats UCT UCT Research

Fanatical birders competing in the Kruger Wildlife Challenge birdlasser.com/private/events… Nine days in paradise. Follow them live to see who claims the trophy. Kruger National Park ZEISS Birding BirdLife South Africa 🇿🇦

Great Alan Lee blog on #sabap2 data features! Henk bluehillescape.blogspot.com/2019/04/sabap2…

Some invasive species are known to compete with and even displace indigenous species. Using #sabap2 data FitzPatrick Ins researchers have investigated this relationship for some #Accipters in #SouthAfrica SA Biodiversity BirdLife South Africa 🇿🇦 Henk Read more: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.298…

Off on an epic birding blitz through Limpopo to target some of the best the Limpopo province has to offer - watch this space: birdlasser.com/private/events…. #extremebirding

Epic day in KNP: Great birds and some pretty cool mammal encounters, 4 of the big-5 within the first 3 hours. Our trip so far: birdlasser.com/private/events… #extremebirding

Stuck at home during South Africa’s 21-day lockdown period? Don’t despair, join the Lockdown Challenge: birdlasser.com/challenges/loc…

Join in! businessinsider.co.za/birdlasser-bir… Business Insider Henk News24 🇿🇦

Bored in lockdown? Join other South Africans in a battle to spot the most birds #SALockdown #lockdown businessinsider.co.za/birdlasser-bir…

Great new paper by Alan Lee and Henk BirdLasser: The influence of a mobile app on a citizen science project #citizenscience #SABAP #birdatlas Nigeria Bird Atlas Project tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

SABAP2, which I believe is South Africa's most important biodiversity monitoring project, needs support. Please help! South African Bird Atlas SA Biodiversity Environmentza FitzPatrick Ins BirdLife South Africa 🇿🇦

Howzit adam cruickshank, thanks for coming by to say hi

Friends from President Ridge at #birdfair

The #YAB #birdfair challenge is on! birdlasser.com/private/events…

#birdlasser talk

Bird walk, #birdlasser field training

#yab leader board after day 1 and a bit of morning birding at the #birdfair