23 Distinguishing shearwaters

“There are approximately ten thousand species of birds on the planet and no single individual has seen them all.”

— Bernd Brunner

Background Comparison of three species of shearwater.

Questions How could the species be distinguished? If there was no species information, what clusters might be found?

Sources seabirds dataset in the CoModes package (Marbac et al. (2016))

Structure A list of two parts, a dataset of 153 birds with 5 variables and a separate classification variable.