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To protect biodiversity, think globally and act locally! For 24 hours, we count as many species as we can find in our nature park. We share what we find with “budding” and “expert” naturalists of all ages! more…
This annual event is co-hosted by the College Station Recreation & Parks and the Student Chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology at TAMU. more…
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PROGRAM OF EVENTS- PUBLIC INVITED
- PARK IN EQUESTRIAN LOT: parking attendants will direct overflow
- HANDICAP DRIVE-THROUGH DROP-OFF AT MAIN PARKING LOT WITH BOOTHS
Friday April 2, 2010
@ EQUESTRIAN PARKING LOT
7:00- 10:00 pm Stargazing & telescopes with Brazos Region Astronomy Service Society(sedentary) MAY BE CANCELED IF SKIES ARE OVERCAST
7:30- 9:00 pm Insect Black Lighting with Insect Survey Team (sedentary)
@ SPEAKERS TENT
7:00 pm Frog walk with Herp Survey Team (moderately strenuous, some off-trail; bring flashlights)
7:30 pm Owl walk with Bird Survey Team (moderately strenuous, on rough trail; bring red-lens flashlights)
7:30 pm Bat walk with Mammal Survey Team (less strenuous, on good trail; bring red-lens flashlights)
8:00 pm Frog walk with Herp Survey Team (moderately strenuous, some off-trail; bring flashlights)
8:30 pm Owl walk with Bird Survey Team (moderately strenuous, on rough trail; bring flashlights)
8:30 pm Bat walk with Mammal Survey Team (less strenuous, on good trail; bring red-lens flashlights)
@ MAIN PARKING LOT: BOOTHS, TALKS & WALKS (ALL TALKS & WALKS AT SPEAKERS TENT)
10:00 am Bird Talk: Q&A with Bird Team
10:30 am Bird Walk (1 hr, moderately strenuous, on trail)
11:00 am Insect Talk: Q&A with Invertebrate Team
11:30 am Insect Walk ( 30 min. not strenuous)
12 noon Mammal Talk: Q&A with Mammal Team
12:30 pm Mammal Walk (1 hr, moderately strenuous, some off-trail)
1:00 pm Plant Talk: Q&A with Plant Team
1:30 pm Plant Walk (30 min, not strenuous, on trail)
2:00 pm Fish Talk: Q&A with Fish Team
2:30 pm Fish Walk (2 hour, strenuous, off trail, wet)
3:00 pm Herp Talk: Q&A with Herp Team
3:30 pm Grand Tally of All Species Counted in 24 hr
4:00 pm Closing ceremony
BioBlitz is in the news! Check out these two articles:
http://wild-wonderings.blogspot.com/
http://www.theeagle.com/lifestyles/Researchers-need-help-of-volunteers
NEWS FLASH:
Thanks to the efforts of all our partners, BioBlitz 2008 was a tremendous success! Over 400 members of our community participated. Survey teams documented over 330 species: 50 birds, 13 fish, 13 herps, 89 invert families, 10 mammals, 156 plants.
Survey coordinators reminded us the count is a conservative estimate of biodiversity, since the invertebrates were counted at the family level,due to the difficulty of identifying all specimens at the species level. Many species we know live in the park were not documented in this 24 hour period.
Above all, the smiles on kids faces made it all worthwhile. Our teams demonstrated the value of caring and sharing nature in our Brazos Valley! We hope you will join us again next year and bring a friend!
Our Grand Tally for 2009 is: 271 species counted by survey teams for BIRDS (49), INSECTS (40), MAMMALS (12), PLANTS (137), FISH (19), HERPS (14)!
Participants included over 300 visitors and 60 volunteers. Thanks to all who helped make BioBlitz 2009 a success!
On Friday evening, over 200 people enjoyed the BRASS star gazing activity. Release of 10 bats was a thrilling highlight to celebrate the new bat houses installed on Deer Run Trail. Insect blacklighting, herp searches and owl prowl were a big draw.
On Saturday, families enjoyed seeing and learning about the ambassador species at the booths of each of the survey teams. Survey team leaders talked about their experiences, answered questions and led walks from the Speakers Tent
in the main parking lot.
Volunteers shared many memorable moments with me. My favorite was watching the kids spontaneously organize their own Herp Hunts!
Special thanks to our partners:
City of College Station - Parks & Recreation
Society for Conservation Biology - TAMU Student Chapter
Texas Master Naturalists - Brazos Valley Chapter
Audubon Society - Rio Brazos (RBAS)
Blinn College- Aquatic Education Center
Texas A&M University- Insect Collection (TAMUIC)
Texas A&M University- Herbarium
Texas A&M University- Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collections (TCWC)
Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History
I spent four days with Ed Riley last month. I posted the pix of the ~250 beetle spp. we collected, and Ed determined, on the southeast side of College Station.
picasaweb.google.com/entomike/BrazosCountyTexas1619IV2009#
or: tinyurl.com/ceougv
TEXAS: Brazos Co.
se. College Station
16-19-IV-2009
M. Quinn, E. Riley
Most material found via black lighting, beating and sweeping.
Note that 250 species is a little less than a fifth the total ~1,300 spp. that Ed has recorded for Brazos County. (There may be twice that many based on the 3,500 spp. recorded from Latimer Co., OK: http://www.texasento.net/KHS.htm)
Mike Quinn, Austin
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Texas Entomology
texasento.net
Here is a quick link to reports:
http://blogs.tamu.edu/bioblitz/logistics/reports/
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