Coverage summary: Wakkerstroom 4 Subproject

The Wakkerstroom Bird Club manages the Wakkerstroom 4 Subproject, and John Burchmore co-ordinates it on behalf of the Wakkerstroom Bird Club. WBC is a small club with 72 members but of those only 6 are actively atlasing the subproject. They therefore rely on visiting birders who visit Wakkerstroom and the surrounding areas to assist with the subproject coverage. The 'Wakkerstroom 4', refers to the four quarter- degree squares 2730AA, AB, AC and AD used by Warwick and Michele Tarboton in their publication WAKKERSTROOM Bird and Nature Guide. These quarter–degree squares have been divided into 110 pentads. The bigger picture: the Green Escarpment Mpumalanga (GEM) Subproject has pentads north west of Heyshope Dam that border on pentads in the Wakkerstroom bird and nature guide. The decision was made to create the Wakkerstroom 4 Subproject and in so doing, green the area, which would then link with GEM, resulting in an area stretching from the Wakkerstroom Grasslands up to Graskop/Sabie by way of the SAPPI sponsored GEM Subproject. This “green” area could link up in time with the Greater Kruger National Park Subproject. To date 73 pentads have been covered, that is 4 or more full protocol cards have been received. There is still more atlasing to be done, any birders/atlasers who are visiting Wakkerstroom should contact the club Chairman Brian Guerin or John Burchmore for more information. Contact SABAP2 at sabap2@birdlife.org.za for more details.

 

 

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