This slideshow shows the quarterly progress with SABAP2012. We are making the movie of bird distribution, and we are the first place in the world to monitor in both space and time

1. Southern African Bird Atlas Project 2
SABAP2012
Visual progress with SABAP2012:
January 2012 to October 2012
Les Underhill, Doug Harebottle and
Michael Brooks
Animal Demography Unit
Department of Zoology
University of Cape Town
http://sabap2.adu.org.za
SABAP2 – the most important bird
conservation project in southern Africa

2. Bird distributions
are continuously on
the move
The objective of
SABAP2012 is to collect
as much atlas data for
2012 as possible, and to
start to develop the
“movie” of bird
distributions, with one
frame per year, rather
than a long-term snapshot

3. SABAP2 is a partnership
between the Animal
Demography Unit at the
University of Cape Town,
BirdLife South Africa and the
South African National
Biodiversity Institute (SANBI)

10. SABAP2012
• We are aiming to get as much coverage
in 2012 as we did in 2011
• We achieved 31.61% in 2011
• On 25 October 2012, we are on 26.15%
• So we have 5.46% to go
• That is 945 pentads!
• The way to find the pentads not visited
yet in 2012 is described in
http://sabap2.adu.org.za/news.php?id=3293