Are these the flock cameras I keep reading about?
Yes and people don't like them because some want to use them to stop migration.
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EuroBirdPortal – Live bird movements across Europe
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#32Anything can be represented by a dot on a screen, but not everything makes sense to be appreciated in this way.
(Shameless self-plug)
I’ve been working on a far nicer way of appreciating bird detections: https://github.com/arnegiacomo/fugleramme
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#33But... but birds aren't real!
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#34Website doesn't really work properly. As soon as I change the birds and update, it shows 0 birds for entire timespan.
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#35Would be cool if the data was accessible easily via a public API, but from what it sounds like here that's not really the case https://www.eurobirdportal.org/ebp/en/help/#third_parties
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a person who emigrated from Scandinavia to the Iberian Peninsula, birds are not the only ones indeed :) Most of the German/British tourists seem to come during the summer though, in contrast to the tourist birds who come during winter. Smart of the birds to avoid all the tourists!
"Most of the German/British tourists seem to come during the summer though" That never made any sense to me. I also go rather go with the birds north in summer where it is cool and to spain in winter when it is still warm.
Summer break from school.
Now that there’s no kid in my household, we do travel more in winter (or whenever).
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a person who emigrated from Scandinavia to the Iberian Peninsula, birds are not the only ones indeed :) Most of the German/British tourists seem to come during the summer though, in contrast to the tourist birds who come during winter. Smart of the birds to avoid all the tourists!
"Most of the German/British tourists seem to come during the summer though" That never made any sense to me. I also go rather go with the birds north in summer where it is cool and to spain in winter when it is still warm.
Spanish winter is very cold too - it’s not the tropics.
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It shows the movement of birds across Europe, and how the birds move north/south according to seasonal changes. You can select different species and see an animation of bird populations. Site works a lot better on desktop.
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#39Website doesn't really work properly. As soon as I change the birds and update, it shows 0 birds for entire timespan.
Indeed! I wasn't even able to change the bird easily. I like the initiative, though. I remember the whole bird migration from Africa to Europe and how it shapes the skies in autumn and spring.
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#40In A Flight of Starlings
https://books.google.co.in/books/about/In_a_Flight_of_Starli...
Murmurations. They are local movements in comparison, but no less fascinating.