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This looks so cool. I am casually interested in bird watching, especially being able to identify them via their songs. However the moment I click to "explore" it requires a login. Yet-another login to manage before I am get to sample the data... window closed. I am not their target demo anyway.
The eBird dataset is available from gbif here: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/4fa7b334-ce0d-4e88-aaae-2e0c138...
It contains 705 million occurences. Can be compared with a Swedish dataset, Artportalen, that contains about a tenth of that, but that is just for Sweden
https://www.gbif.org/dataset/38b4c89f-584c-41bb-bd8f-cd1def3...
In Sweden, majority of all birders report to Artportalen. I don't think eBird get much data at all, in comparison, for Sweden. EDIT: According to gbif, eBird has about 1 million occurences for Sweden, compared with 78 million for Sweden in Artportalen
I do a bit of wildlife photography in my spare time (follow me on Insta for pictures of British birds and occasionally my cat - https://instagram.com/onion4k ). Recognising birds is surprisingly hard. A lot of them have very subtle differences that can't be spotted easily. For example, telling the difference between a common Thrush[1] and a much less common Redwing[2] is a real challenge. It's a fun and challenging p…
Does anyone else struggle with counting individual birds? I talk myself out of submitting a checklist to the "Great Backyard Bird Count" like every year because I worry I'm double counting birds and will mess up their data. When you have a bunch of feeders and live halfway in the woods it becomes an issue of: are there 20 mourning doves or 30? 40 finches or 50?
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife service has a really nice visual database of scanned bird feathers to help identify them.
Here's a great selection of some eBird-adjacent publications: https://birdcast.info/about/publications/
Sometimes I'll come across a feather when I'm out hiking and wonder what kind of bird it is from. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife service has a really nice visual database of scanned bird feathers to help identify them. https://www.fws.gov/lab/featheratlas/
Similar: https://www.xeno-canto.org/ , a crowdsourced bird song database (over 600,000 recordings)
There is also crowd sourced photo database, in Flickr, "Field Guide: Birds of the World", where people have put in lots of effort to associate species tags to photos. Unfortunately, the copyright and license varies from photo to photo. Majority is "All rights reserved". So the only way to use it is basically to explore it through Flickr's website. It would be good if at least it had creative commons licenses, like Xeno Canto has.