08-05: eBird Analytics with Harry Stevens

The American Birding Podcast

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Science, Birding, Hobbies, Travel, Birdwatching, Leisure, Aba, Ornithology, Nature, Birds

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Birders use eBird to log their own personal lists, and to help find birds they would like to see, but the heart of eBird, the dream even of eBird, was to create a massive public database of bird sightings that can turn into opportunities to monitor bird populations. That is, in fact, what Harry Stevens, the Climate Lab columnist for the Washington Post, has done in a new interactive feature at the Washington Post which takes a look at why bird populations are declining.

Also, Artificial Intelligence helps researchers get a bird's eye view.

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0:34.0	Hello and welcome to the American Birding podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:38.6	I'm Nate Swick, your host.
0:40.9	We are all quite familiar with the put a geologer on the back of a bird and see where it goes,
0:46.1	School of Ornithological Research.
0:48.2	But in the next decade, that sort of thing is going to be old news.
0:52.1	Derrigour, even.
0:54.0	Sure, the technology will probably advance such that smaller and smaller birds can be tracked
0:59.0	at finer and finer scales, but the basic idea is well known and well worn at this point.
1:06.0	No, the next wave of mind-blowing bird research is going to involve putting an actual video camera on the bird and allowing us to see the world from the bird's point of view.
1:17.6	Yes, I know.
1:19.0	Birds Eye View is right there, but I'll stay away.
1:21.6	We've done some of this before on big and bulky birds like eagles, but there are obvious limitations to this practice, namely that you
1:27.7	can't really use wild birds because you'll never get the camera back. And you honestly can't run a
1:32.9	video camera for more than a few hours before the battery dies. So there's not really any way to
1:37.7	guarantee that you'll record any interesting behavior other than the bird flying around and sitting in places.
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