ebird in A Sentence

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    Ebird collects data on birds from birders;

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    For more on estimating the skill of Ebird participants, see Kelling, Johnston, et al.(2015).

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    Many non-ornithologists are initially extremely skeptical when they hear about Ebird for the first time.

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    For more on how researchers use statistical models to analyze Ebird data see Fink et al.

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    The right question is“For certain research questions, are the Ebird data better than existing ornithology data?”?

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    In my opinion, part of this skepticism comes from thinking about Ebird in the wrong way.

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    Prior to the launch of Ebird, most of the data created by birders were unavailable to researchers:.

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    One of the beauties of Ebird is that it captures“work” that is already happening- in this case, birding.

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    By collating the date, Ebird helps us understand the distribution of birds and makes this available for public use.

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    Ebird researchers have two main solutions to these data quality issues- solutions that might be helpful in other distributed data collection projects as well.

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    A classic example of a distributed data collection is Ebird, in which hundreds of thousands of volunteers contribute reports about birds they see.

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    Second, Ebird researchers use statistical models that attempt to correct for the noisy and heterogeneous nature of the raw data(Fink et al. 2010; Hurlbert and Liang 2012).

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    After investigation by the regional expert- including possible additional correspondence with the birder- the flagged reports are either discarded as unreliable or entered into the Ebird database(Kelling et al. 2012).

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    For example, Ebird offers education to participants, and it has created visualizations of each participant's data that, by their design, encourage birders to upload information about all species that they observed, not just the most interesting(Wood et al. 2011; Wiggins 2011).

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    It is not yet clear if these statistical models fully remove biases from the data, but ornithologists are confident enough in the quality of adjusted Ebird data that, as had been mentioned earlier, these data have been used in almost 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications.

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    For example, Gomes says, based on information gathered through Ebird and processed by the partnership, The Nature Conservancy has set up a"reverse auction" in drought-stricken parts of California, paying rice farmers to retain water in their fields when birds are likely to be migrating and in need of stopover habitat.

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