https://journals.uct.ac.za/index.php/BO/issue/feedBiodiversity Observations2024-01-23T15:19:55+02:00Les Underhillles.underhill@uct.ac.zaOpen Journal Systems<p><span class="journal_name">Biodiversity Observations</span> is an Open Access ejournal which focuses on the publication of descriptive papers which report observations relating to biodiversity. There is a summary of the activities of the journal for the period 2010-2022 <a href="https://journals.uct.ac.za/index.php/BO/article/view/1314" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.</p>https://journals.uct.ac.za/index.php/BO/article/view/1515The open-access journal Biodiversity Observations: report for 20232024-01-23T15:19:55+02:00Les G Underhillles@thebdi.orgRene A. Navarrorene.a.navarro@gmail.comMegan Loftie-Eatonmegan@thebdi.org<p>Volume 13 of Biological Observation, published in 2023, contained 39 papers. The largest number of papers in a single volume was in the year 2016, when Volume 7 contained 103 papers.</p> <p> </p>2024-01-23T00:00:00+02:00Copyright (c) 2024 Les G Underhill, Rene A. Navarro, Megan Loftie-Eatonhttps://journals.uct.ac.za/index.php/BO/article/view/1513Cape Sparrow trapped in Cape Weaver nest2024-01-19T11:54:24+02:00H. Dieter Oschadleusdoschadleus@gmail.com<p>On 29 November 2023, during a bird ringing session at the Vanrhynsdorp Sewage Works, we discovered a dead female Cape Sparrow <em>Passer melanurus</em> hanging from an old Cape Weaver <em>Ploceus capensis</em> breeding nest. This is the first record of a nest fatality of a Cape Sparrow in any weaver nest.</p>2024-01-19T00:00:00+02:00Copyright (c) 2024 H. Dieter Oschadleus