eBird
- eBird is the world’s largest biodiversity-related citizen science project
- Enables registered users to upload data that includes the time, location, species, and number of individuals to be easily uploaded (e.g., using the eBird phone app)
- Somewhaet of a social app for birders (like facebook or strava)
- More information
- R packages that make finding/loading data easier
- In-class demonstration of how to find data
- https://ebird.org/explore
- ‘reBird’ package in R
library(rebird) # Download all records of northern flickers reported within the last 14 days # that are within 50 km of my office df.eb <- ebirdgeo(species = species_code("Colaptes auratus"), lat = 39.190433, lng = -96.579382, dist = 50, back = 14, key = "8438gb5f5692") df.eb## # A tibble: 7 x 13 ## speciesCode comName sciName locId locName obsDt howMany lat lng ## <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <int> <dbl> <dbl> ## 1 norfli Northe… Colapt… L488… Tuttle… 2020… 2 39.3 -96.6 ## 2 norfli Northe… Colapt… L179… Lake W… 2020… 1 38.9 -96.2 ## 3 norfli Northe… Colapt… L443… Tuttle… 2020… 1 39.3 -96.6 ## 4 norfli Northe… Colapt… L131… The Ba… 2020… 2 39.3 -96.4 ## 5 norfli Northe… Colapt… L479… Wester… 2020… 1 39.2 -96.6 ## 6 norfli Northe… Colapt… L499… Pottaw… 2020… 2 39.2 -96.5 ## 7 norfli Northe… Colapt… L453… Yard 2020… 3 39.2 -96.5 ## # … with 4 more variables: obsValid <lgl>, obsReviewed <lgl>, ## # locationPrivate <lgl>, subId <chr> - What research questions related using these data?
- Group discussion