Download Vermont eBird Data at the Avian Knowledge Network
Ruby-throated Hummingbird records from the Avian Knowledge Network
The goal of AKN is to educate the public on the dynamics of bird populations, provide interactive decision-making tools for land managers, make available a data resource for scientific research, and advance new exploratory analysis techniques to study bird populations.
The Vermont Center for Ecostudies is a partner organization providing data to the AKN from Mountain Birdwatch (18,897 bird records from 1,115 locations since 2000) and Vermont eBird (133,831 bird records from 1,914 locations since 1963). And now, you can explore all the Vermont eBird records through the AKN.
The new AKN website is designed to provide improved intuitive access to AKN resources. New features include expanded data download functionality. You can download the entire Vermont eBird dataset to examine in excel on your own for example. For most of us, that would be too much data to handle. No problem. You can visit the custom download page and request only what interests you. The data can be downloaded as tab delimited text (to use with Excel for example) or you can even get it as a Google Earth file.
For example, I asked it to retrieve all of the Golden Eagle records in Vermont eBird as a Google Earth file. After a few minutes of downloading to my desktop, I clicked on the file and it opened in Google Earth. As I expected, the map showed me that the sightings are mostly through the Champlain Valley or right along the Connecticut River. I refined my AKN data request to only fall and early winter and included New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut to see if records continued down the river valleys. Once again, I opened the file in Google Earth and yes indeed, they appeared to be along these valley bottoms the entire way down to the coast. Are these migration corridors of some sort? We don?t know yet, but your data could help us learn more!
Would you like to explore Vermont eBird data? Maybe you have a hypothesis you want to explore like my eagle example. Or, perhaps you are just curious how many records there are of a rare species found in Vermont. After all, we now have all of the accepted rare bird sightings from the Vermont Bird Records Committee uploaded to Vermont eBird. Whatever you question might be, AKN might help give you the answer.
Visit the AKN data downoad page.
Would you like to see some interesting visualizations and analysis by AKN? Here are some examples:
Watch Purple Martin Migration on the Continental Scale
View Exploratory Analysis for House Finch Occurrences
