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.

This month, the Adelaide Park Lands Association is hosting one of the many events throughout the southern hemisphere for the Great Southern BioBlitz.

Our event will be staged on Saturday morning, 25 November, 10am to 12 noon, within the three small North Adelaide Parks: i.e. Parks #3, #4 and #5 of your Adelaide Park Lands.

*Meet at 10am on Saturday 25 November, at the yellow star; at the northern end of Lefevre Road near the corner of Main North Road.*

Each of these three Parks contains significant areas of re-generated native vegetation.

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 President Shane Sody and other APA members will be on hand (in APA T-shirts) to give you a hand with the iNaturalist app if you need it.

You can also upload images to your favourite social media (e.g. Facebook or Instagram). If you do, please use the tags #GSB2023 and #adelaideparklands.

Register your attendance here (free): https://events.humanitix.com/gsb23-bioblitz-in-north-adelaide-s-parks-3-4-and-5

Our event in Parks 3, 4 and 5 on Saturday 25 November is just one small part of the “Great Southern BioBlitz” involving thousands of people, in 22 countries of the southern hemisphere.