PHOWN summaries and records

Virtual Museum View records in Virtual Museum format
Coverage map for all species
Species totals, Nest stats per species and Observer totals
Species summary , or General query

Observer records, or View VM record
Photo of the week, or PHOWN repeats, or PHOWN priorities

PHOWN record summary

Enter new vm record to see a different record and hit 'Go'.

vm:
Previous record Next record

Photos uploaded by observer

 
Large photos

Species allocated by Coordinator:


808, Southern Red Bishop Euplectes orix (see species summary here)

Record details entered by participant: (see all records here for this participant)

Record statusACCEPTED
Vm592 [on-line data upload (2011-02-16): 4424]
SpeciesSouthern Red Bishop
Observer(s)Van Vuuren A
Country, town, locusSouth Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Durban,
2930DD
LocalityOld quarry now being maintained by the local model airplane club for flying their craft. The surrounding area is semi-residential, semi-industrial and very degraded.
Latitude, longitude-29.9076827803618, 30.9554493427277 [0 m accuracy]
Date2011/2/5
NotesOnly 4 nests could be seen from the accessible side, there may have been more on the water-side of the reeds, but we only saw a few red bishops in the area anyway.
Nest count4
Nest sitereed

Google map for this record (zoom in and switch to satellite view)


To see this map with all other PHOWN records, click here. Note that the map on this page will load very slowly and probably will only work if you use Chrome as a browser.

History of repeat colony counts

Note: repeats from the same day are not shown.

vmSpecies codeDateNestsNotes
5928085/2/20114Only 4 nests could be seen from the accessible side, there may have been more on the water-side of the reeds, but we only saw a few red bishops in the area anyway.

Vm 592

Previous record Next record