ejournal Ornithological Observations

The Animal Demography Unit (http://adu.org.za/) at the University of Cape Town has just sent this message on their FB page:

The ejournal, Ornithological Observations, has today reached 35000 downloads of the pdfs of the 93 papers published so far. If you have not yet discovered this amazing resource of fascinating observations about birds, go across to http://oo.adu.org.za/ --- the papers are arranged in four volumes, one per year starting 2010.

After you have read a few of the papers in OO, you might well reckon that an observation you have made ranks at least equal with what you have read. Then you can download the guidelines to authors, also on the website.

OO is part of the ADU's "citizen science" mission --- This is where you can take citizen science to a higher level, and start publishing your observations, just like a scientist would.

Well done to our readers, our authors, and especially to our editor, Arnold van der Westhuizen, for helping us get to this amazing milestone. Some of the best birding reads are in OO.