Celebrate Urban Birds

PROJECT

Url:http://celebrateurbanbirds.org/
Start date:
End date:

TEAM

Official team page:
Leader:

PROJECT DEFINITION

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Subject

Natural sciences > Ornithology (conservation)

Description

Monitor urban birds (16 species)

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ABOUT PARTICIPANT TASKS

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Tasks description.

Participants have to:

• Pick a precise area;
• watch birds during 10 minutes (can be repeated);
• fill in a report sheet containing a list of 16 birds observed and not observed
• send in the report form electronically or on paper.

Interaction with system objects.

Participants can try to attract birds by creating feeders

Grey typology	Participation typology	Contribution type:
Computing: NO Thinking: NO Sensing: YES Gaming: NO	Crowdsourcing ☑ Distributed intelligence ☐ Participatory science ☐ Extreme citizen science ☐ Science outreach ☐	Data collection ☑ Data analysis ☐ Data interpretation ☐--------
Gaming
Genre:	Gaming elements: reward batches, other
Interface
Data type to manipulate: none	interface enjoyment: cool/attractive Interface usability: easy to use	Member profiles::no Member profile elements:

ABOUT GUIDANCE AND FEEDBACK

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Guidance	Feedback on
Tutorial and documentation: YES Training sequence: SOMEWHAT Peer to peer guidance: SOMEWHAT	individual performance: YES collective performance: YES research progress: NO

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COMMUNITY

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Tools	News & Events
Communication: blog Social Network: N/A	Main news site: Frequency of project news updates: less than weekly Type of events: Social events Frequency of events :
Community description
Community size (volounteers based): Role: Interaction form: Has official community manager(s): maybe Has team work N/A

Other information about community:
Community led additions:

OTHER PROJECT INFORMATION

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No [[has completion level::Low]

No Ornithology Natural sciences conservation"conservation" is not in the list (nature/conservation, environment/climate, geography/urbanism, history/archeology, biology/medicine/neuroscience, physics, space, N/A, other) of allowed values for the "Has citizen science subject area" property.

Celebrate Urban Birds Participants have to:

• Pick a precise area;
• watch birds during 10 minutes (can be repeated);
• fill in a report sheet containing a list of 16 birds observed and not observed
• send in the report form electronically or on paper.

data collection Various rewards, in particular batches crowdsourcing none"none" is not in the list (pictures, sound, text, simulation, 3D manipulation, observations, none - N/A, other) of allowed values for the "Has data types to manipulate" property., other: Thinking: no Computing: no Sensing: yes Gaming: no reward batches, other

Participants can try to attract birds by creating feeders cool/attractive easy to use yes somewhat N/A yes yes no

no

maybe blog N/A Social events

less than weekly

N/A

Low

Materials for Participants

• http://celebrateurbanbirds.org/about/resources/get-your-kit/

In addition, participants are encouraged to participate and organize other activities, e.g. Art Activities for Community Events

News, Events

• http://blog.celebrateurbanbirds.org/

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