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  BioBlitz is coming to Lincoln!  
     
  Join us in the Lincoln Liffey Domain between 3.15pm Friday 3rd April and 3.15pm Saturday 4th April.  
     
  BioBlitz is a celebration of the diversity of life. It helps people understand and appreciate local biodiversity, and measure the health of their local environment. Part contest, part festival, part educational event and part scientific survey – BioBlitz is a scientific race against time. Our goal is to find as many species as we can in 24 hours in the Liffey Domain.  
     
 
BioBlitz is a fantastic opportunity to meet experts on insects, plants, birds, lizards and fungi, and experience the diversity of life around us. There will be lots to do and see at Base Camp at the church hall on James St (opposite the fire station). You can also join field trips with scientists throughout the day and after dark.

BioBlitz activities (3.15pm 3rd April to 3.15 Saturday 4th April) There will be many displays and posters to look at during the 24hrs e.g. check out the amazing displays of insect diversity from the Lincoln University insect museum. Go searching during Friday evening and Saturday with Ruud Kleinpaste and other experts for insects, plants, fungi, etc. Also join in the timetabled activities. 		 
       
 

Schedule

Friday
• 3.15pm Welcome by Lindsay Philps, SD councillor. Ruud Kleinpaste to speak on the event
• 3.30pm Ruud Kleinpaste will open BioBlitz/start the clock – collecting to commence
• 4.00pm Lizard life – talk by herpetologist Marieke Lettink
• 4.30pm How pure/polluted is the Liffey water? - Water Watch
• 5.00pm Meurky Walk – learn about the local plants while walking the Liffey with Colin Meurk
• 5.30pm Bugman Ruud Kleinpaste will lead a walk looking for invertebrate life in the Liffey Domain
• 7.00pm The past and present – what was here and how can we improve the current biodiversity (CM/KW)
• 7.30pm Frog walk - Marieke Lettink will search for frogs in the Liffey
• 7.30pm-late Moth trapping at night (to approx. 12.30am)
• 8.00pm Spot-lighting for mammals, (possums, rodents, cats, etc), spiders, owls, eels

Saturday
• 7.00am Bird watch
• 9.00am Bugman Ruud Kleinpaste will lead a walk looking for invertebrate life in the Liffey Domain
• 9.30am How pure/polluted is the Liffey water? - Water Watch
• 10.00am Who are the local insect pollinators? Linda Newstrom-Lloyd
• 10.30am Weed Watch – Jon Sullivan
• 10.30am Meurky Walk – learn about the local plants while walking the Liffey with Colin Meurk
• 11.30am Monitoring methods for animals - tracking tunnels/wax tags/ camera traps (James/Shaun)
• 12.00pm MD Fungi forage – join a fungi expert on a foray along the Liffey
• 12.30pm Canterbury Mudfish - show & tell by Anita Spencer from DOC
• 1.00pm Spiderman – check out the Liffey spider species with experts
• 1.00pm Lizard search - Marie Lettink will lead a search for lizards
• 1.30pm Electro-fishing in the Liffey
• 2.00pm Leaf litter critters – learn about the diverse range of invertebrates in the leaf litter
• 2.30pm Radio tracking /Tree-climbing demonstrations (Myles Mackintosh)
• 3.00pm Last samples in for identification and databasing
• 3.30pm 24 hrs up! Final count announced – how many species did we find?

 
   
   
 

 

For more information contact Mike Bowie 3218388 or Sue Jarvis 329 5858 or 021 100 1009
 

 
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