EuroBirdPortal maps live bird movements across Europe
EuroBirdPortal – Live bird movements across Europe
EuroBirdPortal (EBP) is a collaborative platform that visualizes live bird movements across Europe. It aggregates bird observation data from multiple sources, offering up-to-date maps and trends for hundreds of species, from swans and geese to sandpipers and terns. The site serves as a resource for researchers, conservationists, and birdwatchers to track migrations and distributions in near real-time.
Live bird movements across Europe
- smackay
It's a little abstract, but the map showing swallows breaking out of the south of Iberia, then rapidly heading north is rather cool. You'll get a much better feeling for what this shows, if, early next spring, you find a natural barrier like a river or estuary. Then you can see birds pushing north and understand what these maps are really showing. For extra drama, hope for a strong headwind, and your admiration of what 20 grams of determination can do, will only increase.
- 317070
It's odd that you can see the borders between Belgium and France for various birds (like the swift and cuckoo), same for the border between Germany and Poland.
I wonder why that is? There are no topological features defining these borders. Maybe the data is normalised in some way across countries?
- sph
Are these the flock cameras I keep reading about?
- kiproping
I see it's a portal tracking bird data from other websites. I am doing the same but for East Africa, not live birds but generally monitoring biodiversity, what is happening from ebird, to Xeno-canto to iNaturalist every week. Any new research grade species, new updates to ebird and XC sound additions. East Africa is very under monitored compared to other places. Still work in progress. https://platform.maiyoinstitute.org/
- krige
Website doesn't really work properly. As soon as I change the birds and update, it shows 0 birds for entire timespan.