The virtual museums:Dial in to Phown (Photos of weaver nests)

H. Dieter OschadleusSAFRING & Weaver Watch, Animal Demography Unit,University of Cape Town

Pietermaritzburg11 Feb 2012

Mammals

Weavers AmphibiansReptiles

ButterfliesDragonflies

Trees

Reptiles – Clear photos

Amphibians – Clear photos or sound recordings

Butterflies – upper and under sides of the butterfly wings

Dragonflies or damselflies close-up photos

Trees – barkleaves

flowers and/or fruit

Mammal AtlasTali Hoffman

http://africanalchemy.wordpress.com

Camera Traps

Flash

Motion sensor

Lens

Battery pack

Infrared sensorLight beam trigger

30, 000 images

Southern Masked Weaver: colony size by habitat

Av colony size:W Cape = 6.3 N Cape = 10.0

Cape Weaver: colony size by nest site

trees 22.6 nests/colony reeds 13.3 nests/colony

Average colony size:

Repeats

Cape Weaver: No. of nests

31 Mar 01 May 01 Jun 02 Jul 02 Aug 02 Sep 03 Oct 03 Nov 04 Dec0

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20102011

Lovebirds & Cape Weaver, VM_568

Boomslang & Cape Weaver, VM_572

White-winged Widow

Cape Weaver

Sociable Weaver

Viellot’s Black Weaver

Citizen scientistsProgramme for the Enhancement of Research

Capacity’s Africa Knowledge Project (PERC), UCT

Acknowledgements