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