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Recording Birds Fiona Barclay

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Recording Birds. Fiona Barclay. What do we do?. What’s the point?. Do rarities matter?. p hotos. blogs. emails. websites. texts. ‘phone calls. c ommunity groups. Who do our records come from?. Birders. Photographers. Members of the public. recorders. research. mobile. texts. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Recording Birds

Fiona Barclay

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What do we do?

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What’s the point?

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Do rarities matter?

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blogs

photos

emails

websitestexts

community groups ‘phone calls

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Who do our records come from?

Members of the public

Birders

Photographers

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recordersresearch

mobiletexts

emails

website

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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

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Why are we interested in mobile devices?

portable omnipresent

connected

speakermicrophone

location aware

camera

sexy?

accessibledemographic

share

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A whole shelf of books in your pocket

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rare? approval by sightings team

usual? incorporate into database and sync

upload a picture or call

share

structure tailored surveys

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Conclusions

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

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Acknowledgements

• Richard Zito• Stephen Menzie• John Cromie• BTO