Fly, my pretties, fly! Exploring, visualizing & publishing bird tracking data

Talk at the Empowering Biodiversity Research conference in Brussels, Belgium - May 21, 2015.

An introduction to bird migration research and the tools we use to open up the data collected through our LifeWatch bird tracking network. Note: slide 8, 10 and 12 were animated in the original version.

Transcript

1. Fly,  my  pre*es,  fly!   Exploring,  visualizing  &  publishing     bird  tracking  data   Peter  Desmet  
2. Bird  migraBon     Where  do  birds  go?  
3. Flight  Paths,  Helen  MacDonald,  New  York  Times  Magazine  ny=.ms/1IFvB0r  
5. New  tools   to  study  bird  migraBon  
6. Tracking  populaBons   by  large  scale  observaBons  
7. Human  observaBons   eBird:  ciBzen  science   2014  EOD  –  eBird  Observa=on  Dataset  doi.org/10.15468/aomfnb  
8. eBird  species  map  ebird.org/ebird/map  /  Image  by  JJ  Cadiz,  Cajay  bit.ly/1PTSnlW  
9. Machine  observaBons   ENRAM:  European  Network  for  the  Radar   surveillance  of  Animal  Movement   ENRAM  enram.eu    /  Image  by  KMI  
10. Shamoun-­‐Baranes  et  al.  doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arr102  
11. Desmet  et  al.  git.io/vTW7o  
12. Desmet  et  al.  git.io/vTW7o  
13. Tracking  individuals   by  augmenBng  birds  with     human  technology  
14. Human  observaBons   Rings,  wing  tags   Image  (cropped)  by  Misjel  Decleer,  Photo  Gallery,  VLIZ  
15. Machine  observaBons   GPS  trackers   Image  by  Misjel  Decleer,  Photo  Gallery,  VLIZ  
16. LifeWatch   Bird  tracking  network  
17. 3  species   Lesser  Black-­‐backed  Gull,  Herring  Gull,   Western  Marsh  Harrier     Image  by  Agaat  de  Poel  /  WMH  image  by  Francesco  Veronesi  bit.ly/1HuuEcQ  
18. GPS  receiver   Accelero-­‐   meter   Thermometer   Barometer   Flash  memory   Antenna   BaSery   Solar  cells   UvA-­‐BiTS  tracker   12  grams  
19. Tracker   Antenna   Base  staBon   Virtual  lab   Image  by  Misjel  Decleer,  Photo  Gallery,  VLIZ  /  Antenna  image  by  VLIZ  
20. Data   1.3  million  records  from     64  individuals  in  15  months   Follow  the  birds  in  real  =me  at  lifewatch.be/en/birds  
23. LifeWatch  INBO  blog  lifewatch.inbo.be  
24. CartoDB  website  cartodb.com  
29. London   Seville   Boat   Colony  
30. These  data  are  so  cool   I  want  to  explore  them  too!  
31. INBO  IPT  dataset.inbo.be/bird-­‐tracking-­‐gull-­‐occurrences   Data  are  available   Gull  tracking  data  are  published  on  our  IPT  
32. GBIF  doi.org/10.15468/02omly  
33. LifeWatch  INBO  on  GitHub  git.io/vTE0M  
34. Open  data   Be  nice  
35. Image  from  The  Simpsons   “Fly,  my  preees,  fly!”  
36. Thanks!   @LifeWatchINBO   lifewatch.inbo.be   lifewatch.be/en/birds