This website is intended for all those interested in birds and their conservation, and who would like to take part in the second bird atlas project.
SABAP2 is a follow-up from the first Southern African Bird Atlas Project (SABAP1) which took place from 1987-1991. The project has been designed to build on the successes of SABAP1 and make even a greater contribution to bio-diversity planning and conservation in southern Africa. To read more about the background to SABAP2 and how the project has changed since SABAP1 click here.
Between July 2007, when the project started, and 12 months later at the end of June 2008, SABAP2 made a great deal of progress. We collected 223 000 records of bird distribution on 4000 checklists. The 1-year report has the details. In the four months July to October 2008, this number of records increased by 94% to 433 000. See the Four-month report for this period for the details.
We would recommend that you bookmark this page to obtain quick and easy access to the site. Updates will be made on a regular basis, and as an atlaser it will be important to keep abreast with project developments and news.
Latest news |
| 2009-01-06 | Les Underhill | | Free State takes over the lead from Northern Cape | | Since the beginning of December, more new pentads have been atlased in the Free State than in any of the other provinces. Until a day ago, this honour belonged to the Northern Cape. 57 pentads have now been atlased for the first time in the Free State, compared to 54 in the Northern Cape. Mpumalanga has moved up into third place with 46 new pentads, followed by the Western Cape with 39. Special praise needs to go to the atlasers of Gauteng - at the start of December there were still 54 pentads in this province to be atlased, out of 271. Pentads left to last tend always to be the most difficult, for one reason or another. 29 of these 54 have now been covered and this province stands at 91% coverage. So Gauteng has only 25 pentads to go to reach 100%. The Gauteng achievement is a cause for real celebration | | |
| | 2009-01-06 | Michael Brooks | | SABAP2 website problems | The website problems have been solved. I have been told the offending program has been patched to prevent the issue from repeating.
As reported to me:
Could you please change this to xx.xxx.xxx in all the connection strings as the connection to localhost is routed to xxx.xxx.xxx via an unstable unix2tcp program.
This might be related to the current issues you are experiencing.
Thanks for the patience! | | |
| | 2009-01-05 | Les Underhill | | Website is temperamental | The three-hourly automatic updates on this website, which we have come to take for granted, depend on a whole bunch of computers and the network links between them all functioning perfectly. At the moment, one of the links is giving trouble, so the data on the external website (this one) has got corrupted. The internal website (which the external website is supposed to mirror) is working perfectly. We are doing our best to resolve the problem.
At the 2100 update this evening, there were 10676 checklists submitted, that's 87 submitted checklists in the day. 33 pentads were covered for the first time, the largest single day increase ever, taking coverage past 18.5%. The number of records increased by a record 5626, to 592666.
For those following progress with BASH, here are the 21h00 numbers: Active observers, 188 (94% of target); Cards submitted, 1071 (42.8%); Different pentads covered, 774 (51.6%), New pentads, 306 (an incredible 51.0%); Records submitted, 64454 (43.0%). We need all hands on deck (or rather, holding binoculars) over the next few weeks, to try to meet the somewhat ambitious targets we set ourselves. But they are certainly do-able. We are also hoping that atlasers will keep returning from their atlasing holidays with notebooks full of data which they will submit over the next few weeks (and that there are lots of days that are as productive as today has been). | | |
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