by Shane Sody

Join thousands of fellow Australians in using your smart-phone to observe and record biodiversity in one of the rare precious bushland areas in your Adelaide Park Lands.

The Adelaide Park Lands Association is hosting one of the many many events throughout the southern hemisphere for the Great Southern BioBlitz, over a four-day period.

Our event will be staged on Sunday morning, 30 October, 10am to 12 noon, within G.S. Kingston Park / Wirrarninthi (Park 23).

We will focus just on the northern part of that Park - known as the Wirrarninthi Environmental Trail, in-between the West Terrace Cemetery and Sir Donald Bradman Drive.

Meet here: at the start of the Wirrarninthi Environmental Trail

Some of the biodiversity on the Wirrarninthi Environmental Trail

All you need is your smart phone, equipped with the iNaturalist app (available free from Google's PlayStore or the Apple AppStore).

The task is simple: record what you see or hear (plants, insects, reptiles, birds - even birdsong or frogs croaking).

Upload the sound or picture to the iNaturalist app. The app will tag the exact spot that you recorded your observation, and make a suggestion to identify the species you’ve found. You can try to identify it yourself, but that's not essential.

Here's more info about iNaturalist smartphone app: https://www.adelaide-parklands.asn.au/blog/2022/8/17/citizen-science-share-and-learn

APA's Park Ambassador Ted Jennings and APA reporter Michael Genrich will be on hand (in APA T-shirts) to give you a hand with the iNaturalist app if you need it.

Of course on the day you can also upload images to your favourite social media (e.g. Facebook or Instagram). If you do, please use the tags #GSB2022 and #adelaideparklands.

Register your attendance here (free): https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/wirrarninthi-bioblitz-tickets-426971452107

Our event in Wirrarninthi is just one small part of the “Great Southern BioBlitz” involving thousands of people, in 21 countries of the southern hemisphere.