How a walk on the beach helps science
Smartphone apps are helping to fuel citizen science, writes Claire Keeton. Anyone can log flora and fauna sightings and contribute to conservation
28 March 2021 - 00:00
The wind rustles through a reed bed in Hout Bay, the bass line to the warbling of birds. Standing very still, Garret Skead looks around and identifies more than a dozen bird species by sight or by their calls.“The habitat is a clue,” he says, reeling off names. “Then you evaluate the major features to make an identification. It’s like a diagnosis.”..
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