Competetion for Observado

Gestart door Erik van Dijk, december 09, 2009, 19:23:26 PM

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Erik van Dijk

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091208/ap_on_hi_te/us_bird_finder

                                App in the hand finds birds in bushes as you roam                                                                                                                                           Jory Langner shows off the  BirdsEye application on his iPhone in Delmar, N.Y.,                                                        AP – Jory Langner shows off the  BirdsEye application on his iPhone in Delmar, N.Y., on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. ...                                                                                                       
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By MARY ESCH, Associated Press Writer        Mary Esch, Associated Press Writer        –    Tue Dec 8, 4:47 pm ET                            ALBANY,N.Y. – When Jory Langner finds time for a field trip during an upcomingvisit to Washington, he won't have to ask local birders where to findcandidates to add to his life list of birds sighted.
Allhe'll have to do to is pull out his iPhone and fire up BirdsEye, a newbird-finding application that gives users instant access to recentreports of birds spotted near their location, tells them where to lookfor specific birds, and keeps track of their lists of all the birdsthey've ever seen.
The application makes its debut just ahead of the National Audubon Society's annual Christmas Bird Count,an effort that enlists as many as 55,000 bird watchers around thecountry — from the kitchen window crowd to slog-through-the-woodsdiehards — who report back the kinds and numbers of birds they spot.
Thecount, which runs from Dec. 14 through Jan. 5, collects data used totrack the health of bird populations, identify trends and guideconservation.
"If you don't know the area,whether you're new or traveling through, it's a really good way offinding birding hotspots nearby," said Langner, 60, a software designer. "I'm really looking forward to using it during my upcoming trips around the country."
BirdsEye, recently released for iPhone and iPod Touchat a cost of $19.99, was developed through a collaboration of some ofthe top ornithologists in the country, using content from the CornellUniversity Lab of Ornithology, the Academy of Natural Sciences and field guide author Kenn Kaufman.
"This application has pieced together a network of experts to make possible something no one has done before," said Pete Myers, CEO of Environmental Health Sciences, an environmental journalism organization based in Charlottesville, Va.
Myersgot involved in the BirdsEye project when Todd Koym, a programmer whoworks for him, hatched the idea two years ago. Myers contactedprominent birders he knew when he was senior vice president of the National Audubon Society, and they were eager to help.
It'snot an electronic field guide to help identify birds. There are plentyof those around. This is new: a bird finder. It taps into eBird, themassive, constantly updated database of bird sightings maintained bythe Cornell lab and the National Audubon Society.
Here's how it works.
Supposeyou're a bird watcher on a business trip or visiting relatives acrossthe country and you have some spare time to take in the local fauna.Where's a good place to go?
You start BirdsEyeand poke "Find Nearby Birds." Using the iPhone's built-in GPS, itcalculates your location and gives you a list of all the birds everrecorded in the area or just the ones reported recently. If you'veentered your lifetime bird-sighting list, the application can show youjust the birds not on your list.
Users of the iPod Touch can enter their location manually if there's no Wi-Fi access.
Ifthe list includes a bird you've never seen, you can tap on it for a mapshowing where the bird was reported — say, a nearby park. You head overthere and find woods, fields, and a pond. Where to look? Theapplication has a brief narrative by Kaufman telling whether the birdis likely to be in treetops or grassland, alone or in a flock. It alsohas photos and recordings of the bird.
About 40,000 birders enter up to 2 million sightings a month into eBird, said Brian Sullivan at the Cornell lab.
"We'vebeen contacted by lots of other application developers," Sullivan said."This is the first that uses eBird data. The database is open sourcefor any developer to use."
The biggestlimitation to the eBird database is that it has many observations fromheavily populated areas and fewer from more remote locales. Anapplication that makes it easy for birders to log sightings from thefield would likely improve the database, Sullivan said. BirdsEyedoesn't allow users to upload data to eBird now, but it will in thefuture, Koym said.
"You might think of birdwatchers sitting in the woods eating granola and writing with leadpencils," Kaufman said. "But most of the birders I know are eager to gohigh tech and use whatever is available to find birds."
Myers, who travels extensively in his work, found the application proved its worth the first time he tried it.
"I have a pretty decent life list, with 571 birds, so it usuallytakes some work to find something new," Myers said. But during a tripto San Francisco, he turned on BirdsEye and it told him there had been sightings of red-masked parakeetsnearby the previous day. "I had never seen one. So I followed the mapit gave me and found about 60 of them within a half hour."
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On the Net:
Cornell Lab of Ornithology: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/                               
Met vriendelijke groet

Erik van Dijk

hiskodevries

dan zijn wij toch al wat stapjes verder
Was getekend Hisko de Vries.

Wil je een fotovraag stellen op het forum lees dan dit eerst https://forum.waarneming.nl/smf/index.php?topic=452369.0

Erik van Dijk

Zeker.
De mogelijke concurrentie zit dan ook in de aantallen gebruikers en niet de techniek.
Met vriendelijke groet

Erik van Dijk

Thijs Fijen

2 miljoen waarnemingen per maand...
Thijs Fijen

marcel123

CiteerAbout 40,000 birders enter up to 2 million sightings a month into eBird
Citaat van: antimoon op december 11, 2009, 09:12:12 AM
De mogelijke concurrentie zit dan ook in de aantallen gebruikers en niet de techniek.
Dan denk ik dat zij wat stapjes verder zijn dan wij.

hdijk

#5
Als ik het goed begrijp is het een mobiele app met een soort twitchersfunctie/excursieplanner die gebruikt maakt van Ebird data. Misschien is er nog wat te leren van dat eBird?

Hendrik Jan van Dijk

hiskodevries

het achterland is ook een tikje groter ( niet veel natuurlijk :))
Was getekend Hisko de Vries.

Wil je een fotovraag stellen op het forum lees dan dit eerst https://forum.waarneming.nl/smf/index.php?topic=452369.0

hdijk

Citaat van: hiskodevries op december 14, 2009, 15:11:57 PM
het achterland is ook een tikje groter ( niet veel natuurlijk :) )
Nou, ehh... Europa heeft toch 3x meer inwoners van de USA!!
Hendrik Jan van Dijk


hdijk

Hendrik Jan van Dijk

laatvlieger

Citaat van: hdijk op augustus 15, 2010, 14:02:20 PM
Fraaie animatie van Ebird ( http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100810/full/news.2010.395.html)



De animatie is fraai, hadden ze die niet met een of andere supercomputer gemaakt? Overigens kunnen we deze plaatjes ook al heel lang (sinds 2006?) projecteren in waarneming.nl (weliswaar niet zo grafisch fraai, maar wel hetzelfde principe). Dit zijn de "trend kaartjes". 
(trend is bij deze kaartjes overigens niet helemaal een goede woordkeuze)
http://waarneming.nl/presentie.php?datum_va=20100515&weken=10&diergroep=1&soort=284&interval=w&akt=A
Groet,

Wouter Teunissen


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