SABAP2 BIRDING WITH A PURPOSE
SABAP2 (Southern African Bird Atlas Project 2) was formally launched on 1 July 2007. This project is an atlas project involving Birdlife South Africa (BLSA) Animal Demography Unit (ADU) at the University of Cape Town and the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), and is a follow-up from the first bird atlas project (SABAP) which took place from 1987-1991. It aims to determine the impacts of environmental change on the distribution and abundance of bird species in South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. It also aims to promote the public awareness of birds and update distribution maps in the field guides.
There are 1278 pentads (small defined survey areas) to atlas in KZN. To date (24th February 2009) we have atlased 490 pentads, that’s 38.3% coverage. A total of 1862 cards have been submitted for these pentads comprising 109.675 records.
We need as much help as possible with this very exciting project. If you are a birder, enjoy new challenges and would like to make your birding contribute to long-term bird conservation in southern Africa please consider getting involved. I will gladly organise for someone to visit you, set up the software, give you a lesson on how to atlas and submit cards. It is really easy.
The user-friendly software can downloaded from the SABAP2 website
http://sabap2.adu.org.za
If you don’t have a computer - there are manual forms that one can use to submit information. I am also happy to submit cards on your behalf if you email or fax me the relevant information.
Atlasing is fun; new places to visit, new birds to list and new people to meet.
Trish Strachan
Atlas activities Coordinator for KZN
Fax: 0866 853754
Mobile: 082 411 2708
E-mail: sabap2.kzn@futurenet.co.za
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16 Pentads to 100% KZN Coverage
- SABAP2 Website
- SABAP2 Total Gap Analysis
- BirdLife South Africa
- S A BirdNet Group Site
- KZN-Birds Yahoo Group Site
- BirdLife Zululand
- BirdLife Trogons
- Birdlife Port Natal
- KZN Midlands Bird Club
- Shane McPherson's Crowned Eagle Research
- Birding with Trish
- Ernst Retief
- ADU's Virtual Museum
- MyBirdPatch
- Birds In Reserves Project [BIRP]
Downloads
[Last updated 7/07/2012]
These are all MS Excel files.
Pentad Chart Files
The first three files are all part of the same data set. They are maps of KZN showing the pentads with a name, pentad code, the cards & species and the quarterly splits of the cards for each pentad. (The quarters run SON - DJF - MAM - JJA).
KZN is split into North & South along the 28° line, with the 28° falling in both data sets, ie is common to both. Both of these files reference the data contained in the base data file.
If you have downloaded all three of these files, you then only need to dowload the Base Data file, and then as long as you have this file in the same directory as the North / South files, Excel will upadate their data from the new file.
Many thanks to Peter Spence for his hard work on the concept.
These are all MS Excel files.
Pentad Chart Files
The first three files are all part of the same data set. They are maps of KZN showing the pentads with a name, pentad code, the cards & species and the quarterly splits of the cards for each pentad. (The quarters run SON - DJF - MAM - JJA).
KZN is split into North & South along the 28° line, with the 28° falling in both data sets, ie is common to both. Both of these files reference the data contained in the base data file.
If you have downloaded all three of these files, you then only need to dowload the Base Data file, and then as long as you have this file in the same directory as the North / South files, Excel will upadate their data from the new file.
Many thanks to Peter Spence for his hard work on the concept.