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Kaleidoscope is an integrated suite of bioacoustics tools which allows converting file formats, viewing spectrograms, creating classifiers for birds, bats, frogs, and other species, sorting and categorizing bat data by species in North America, Europe, South Africa and the Neotropics, and generating reports. Bioacoustics [14] GPL v3
Avibase is an extensive database information system about all birds of the world, containing over 27 million records about 10,000 species and 22,000 subspecies of birds, including distribution information for 20,000 regions, taxonomy, synonyms in several languages and more ASEAN Biodiversity Information Sharing Service (BISS) [5]
An avocet at the RSPB's Minsmere reserve. This species is used in the RSPB's logo. Today, the RSPB works with both the civil service and the Government to advise Government policies on conservation and environmentalism. [17] It is one of several organisations that determine the official conservation status list for all birds found in the UK.
Bird species admitted to the British List are those in BOU categories A, B or C: A: species that have been recorded in an apparently natural state at least once since 1 January 1950. B: species that were recorded in an apparently natural state at least once between 1 January 1800 and 31 December 1949, but have not been recorded subsequently.
A system developed in 2022 [7] showed that automated identification achieves accuracy that is sufficiently high for being used in an automated insect surveillance system using electronic traps. By training classifiers on a few hundred images it correctly identified fruit-flies, and can be used for continuous monitoring aimed at detecting ...
BirdTrack is an online citizen science website, operated by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) on behalf of a partnership of the BTO, the RSPB, BirdWatch Ireland, the Scottish Ornithologists' Club and the Welsh Ornithological Society (Welsh: Cymdeithas Adaryddol Cymru). [1] [2] [3] It is also available though mobile apps. [4]
The Peterson Identification System is a practical method for the field identification of animals, plants and other natural phenomena. It was devised by ornithologist Roger Tory Peterson in 1934 for the first of his series of Field Guides [1] (See Peterson Field Guides.) Peterson devised his system "so that live birds could be identified readily ...
Titchwell Marsh is an English nature reserve owned and managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). Located on the north coast of the county of Norfolk, between the villages of Titchwell and Thornham, about 8 km (5.0 mi) east of the seaside resort of Hunstanton, its 171 hectares (420 acres) include reed beds, saltmarshes, a freshwater lagoon and sandy beach, with a small ...