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The Role of Recording Birds: Engaging Citizen Scientists and Enhancing Data Utilization

This discussion focuses on the importance of recording birds and engaging the community in this crucial activity. It explores the role of different contributors, including birders, photographers, and the general public, in building a valuable database. By maximizing our data usage—covering even suppressed species, employing mobile technology, and simplifying communication—we can enhance our conservation efforts. This session will also consider the future of mobile devices in citizen science, the necessity for collaboration, and how to recruit more participants for effective data collection.

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The Role of Recording Birds: Engaging Citizen Scientists and Enhancing Data Utilization

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  1. Recording Birds Fiona Barclay

  2. What do we do?

  3. What’s the point?

  4. Do rarities matter?

  5. photos blogs emails websites texts ‘phone calls community groups

  6. Who do our records come from? Birders Photographers Members of the public

  7. recorders research mobile texts emails website

  8. 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

  9. Why are we interested in mobile devices? portable omnipresent connected sexy? microphone speaker accessible demographic location aware camera share

  10. A whole shelf of books in your pocket

  11. rare? approval by sightings team usual? incorporate into database and sync upload a picture or call share structure tailored surveys

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

  13. Acknowledgements • Richard Zito • Stephen Menzie • John Cromie • BTO

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