Subject: [Tweeters] Poll the audience: Using data from citizen science to keep wild birds in flight: Data from birding apps offer utility to researchers and managers -- ScienceDaily
Date: Mon May 23 05:18:53 PDT 2022
From: Steve Hampton - stevechampton at gmail.com

Much of the research on birds and climate change is based on Christmas Bird
Count (CBC), Breeding Bird Survey (BBS), and eBird data.

eBird will soon be adding a fascinating feature on their Abundance Map
pages, called a Trend Map-- you can see the link to them already for each
species, but they are grayed out. We learned about this at the Wash Orn.
Society on-line conference last year. Each species will have a summer and
winter map consisting of thousands of blue dots (where they are increasing)
and red dots (where they are decreasing). In a sense, each map will be like
thousands of research papers for a specific site for a specific species.
They will provide a picture of how climate, habitat, and other changes are
impacting each species. Since eBird use increases dramatically each year,
you can imagine there's a lot of statistical work that goes into teasing
out the true trend from the data. I won't go into that here, but it's
pretty cool. They are not dropping these maps online until a peer-reviewed
paper on the methodology is published.



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