EBird

eBird
Type of site
Wildlife database
Available in14 languages (but see Features, below)
Created byCornell Lab of Ornithology
URLebird.org
Launched2002 (22 years ago) (2002)
Current statusActive

eBird is an online database of bird observations providing scientists, researchers and amateur naturalists with real-time data about bird distribution and abundance. Originally restricted to sightings from the Western Hemisphere, the project expanded to include New Zealand in 2008,[1] and again expanded to cover the whole world in June 2010.[2][3] eBird has been described as an ambitious example of enlisting amateurs to gather data on biodiversity for use in science.[4]

eBird is an example of crowdsourcing,[5] and has been hailed as an example of democratizing science, treating citizens as scientists, allowing the public to access and use their own data and the collective data generated by others.[6]

  1. ^ eBird New Zealand (2008). "About eBird". Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Archived from the original on September 22, 2010. Retrieved June 5, 2010.
  2. ^ Datta, Rangan (February 22, 2024). "Counting the winged guests at Rabindra Sarobar". The Telegraph. My Kolkata. Retrieved February 26, 2024.
  3. ^ eBird (2010). "Global eBird almost there! -- 3 June update". Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Archived from the original on June 3, 2010. Retrieved June 5, 2010.
  4. ^ "The Role of Information Science in Gathering Biodiversity and Neuroscience Data" Archived 2009-03-03 at the Wayback Machine, Geoffrey A. Levin and Melissa H. Cragin, ASIST Bulletin, Vol. 30, No. 1, Oct. 2003
  5. ^ Robbins, Jim (August 19, 2013). "Crowdsourcing, for the Birds". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 18, 2022.
  6. ^ Cooper, Caren; Dickinson, Janis; Phillips, Tina; Bonney, Rick (November 20, 2008). "Science Explicitly for Nonscientists". Ecology and Society. 13 (2). doi:10.5751/ES-02602-1302r01. ISSN 1708-3087.