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IDENTIFICATION

Participant's homepage
  • Infrastructure:
  • Developed with:
Start date :
  • Beta start date : N/A
  • End date :
Subject
  • Natural sciences > Ornithology (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.)
  • Others in the same subject areas: Air Quality with Biomarkers, Andromeda Project, Bat detective, Budburst... further results
  • Others projects about 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.:

Description Monitor urban birds (16 species) Purpose

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TEAM

MAIN TEAM LOCATION
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Project team page Leader: Institution: Partner institutions: Contact:

USER TASKS

CONTRIBUTION TYPE: data collection
PARTICIPATION TYPOLOGY: crowdsourcing


GAMING GENRE NONE
GAMING ELEMENTS: NONE

COMPUTING
THINKING
SENSING
GAMING

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 objects Participants can try to attract birds by creating feeders Interface

  • Data type to manipulate: 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.
  • interface enjoyment: cool/attractive
  • Interface usability: easy to use

GUIDANCE

GUIDANCE
  • Tutorial:
  • Peer to peer guidance: Somewhat
  • Training sequence: Somewhat
FEEDBACK ON
  • Individual performance:
  • Collective performance:
  • Research progress: x

Feedback and guidance description

COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY TOOLS
  • Communication: blog
  • Social Network: N/A
  • Member profiles:: no
  • Member profile elements:
NEWS & EVENTS
  • 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:
  • Community led additions:


Other information

PROJECT

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


TEAM

Official team page:
Leader:




PROJECT DEFINITION


Subject

Natural sciences > Ornithology (conservation)

Description

Monitor urban birds (16 species)

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ABOUT PARTICIPANT TASKS


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


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


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 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

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

News, Events


Bibliography

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