Recording Birds

Recording Birds

Fiona Barclay

What do we do?

What’s the point?

Do rarities matter?

blogs

photos

emails

websitestexts

community groups ‘phone calls

Who do our records come from?

Members of the public

Birders

Photographers

recordersresearch

mobiletexts

emails

website

How to maximise value

• Ensure we communicate our results with interested parties

• Work together to define sites, constraints, traceability, automate systems

• Ensure we are using ALL of our data (suppressed birds, negative news, photographic records)

• Recruit, recruit, recruit

Why are we interested in mobile devices?

portable omnipresent

connected

speakermicrophone

location aware

camera

sexy?

accessibledemographic

share

A whole shelf of books in your pocket

rare? approval by sightings team

usual? incorporate into database and sync

upload a picture or call

share

structure tailored surveys

Conclusions

• Convenience• Opens doors• Millions of devices• Likely evolution of devices• Enormous potential to recruit citizen scientists• Social networking of a more fulfilling sort

Acknowledgements

• Richard Zito• Stephen Menzie• John Cromie• BTO