New intern and calm seas

Last week we welcomed Luke Sutton to the team on a part-time summer internship. Supported by the Peregrine Fund, Luke will be working to build the Global Raptor Information Network’s (GRIN) database of global raptor observations by incorporating data from online databases, museum specimens, and…

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Owl in residence

  This week we have another rescued bird under observation in the Hawk Hotel at HabitatInfo. Found at night on the side of the road by Ffion, local skipper of Falcon Boats she took it home for a few nights before checking it in…

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Swimming with jellies

The HabitatInfo/ARDB office is located a few minutes walk from the glorious Pembrokeshire coast and the sea has been very inviting of-late with lots of jellyfish to marvel at. This beautiful Compass jellyfish was among them, photo taken by Lou Luddington.  

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ARDB annual review for 2014

What a year 2014 has been! We’ve seen the database nearly double in size, the launch of an offline Android app, the ARDB receive its own ‘branding’ and the beginning of the species distribution modelling stage!  The full annual review can be downloaded here….

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Cassin’s Hawk Eagle

Darcy Ogada and the ARDB are trying to get all the existing Cassin’s Hawk Eagle records into the ARDB for a small project we are working on.  We currently (3/9/2014) have 80 records; 45 recent and 35 historic (Snow Atlas).  We’d appreciate your help in adding any…

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