To colour the 47 pentads of eThekwini Municipality ‘green’ in 2021, to maximise information on bird distributions in the municipal area. This provides important data for conservation and contributes to both the municipal conservation plan and the national efforts. BE KZN members are encouraged to atlas these pentads themselves or in groups as well as join the CMGE Club Atlas field trips – the first of these was conducted on the 20th March 2021. To read about each club atlas outing click on each of the report links here
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The Coverage map shows the project coverage on a pentad scale. To view a more detailed summary of an area, open the relevant areas coverage map from the top menu.
To view the pentad information, click on the pentad, to open a pentad summary, double click.
Pentad:
A 5 minute x 5 minute coordinate
grid super-imposed over the continent for spatial reference.
Download species summary (CSV FORMAT)
Download species monthly summary (CSV FORMAT) NOTE: This download contains Reporting Rate per month data from Full Protocol submissions only
Download species monthly summary per pentad (CSV FORMAT) NOTE: This download contains Reporting Rate per month data from Full Protocol submissions only
Download Full and Adhoc protocol card headers (CSV FORMAT)
Download the KML layer for Google Earth
This data can be uploaded/linked directly into any GIS software which supports geoJSON protocols, such as QGIS. More information on geoJSON can be found at http://geojson.org.
Add a geoJSON Vector layer to you project, pointing to the following link: https://api.birdmap.africa/sabap2/v2/coverage/group/15278_BEKZN_CMGE21?format=geoJSON
Please note that geoJSON files are mostly used by users of GIS software who want to do further analyses. For most users the coverage maps on the website will be sufficient, for example you can zoom in to see the specific pentad information. However, if you want to analyse the data in more detail follow these steps. First install a GIS programme such as QGIS (it is free). You will then have to download the species's geoJSON file under the species maps in the Downloads tab (for example https://api.birdmap.africa/sabap2/v2/coverage/group/15278_BEKZN_CMGE21?format=geoJSON for this maps data). The following short tutorial will then explain to you how to load the map into QGIS using the URL of the geoJSON page - Click here
