January 31st, 2025
SEE lists: showcasing the value of collecting complete lists in SE Europe
SEE lists is a new EBP tool that aims to contribute to increase the overall quality and quantity of the data collected in SE Europe by showcasing the value of the complete lists collected by the online bird portals operating in Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia (the target countries of the LIFE EBP Reinforcement project in SE Europe).
SEE lists has three main sections, all of them updated every day with the data collected up to the previous day by the different online bird portals (see here to know more about the EBP data flow system).
At the top, you can see the overall statistics in terms of the number of species recorded, complete lists submitted and observers contributing data and, on the right, the section that shows how data collection and participation has progressed in the area over the years. At the center, there is the main section of the viewer, where you can see the information at the species level (you can select the species of interest from the drop-down menu), including overall changes in reporting rates and the phenological graphs.
Why are complete lists so valuable?
Unlike casual observations, complete lists not only contain information about the bird species that have been detected, but also about those that have not been detected. In other words, they give much more valuable information because knowing where birds aren’t detected is just as important as knowing where they are!
Thanks to this, complete lists are particularly helpful when trying to understand the patterns of bird distribution across space and time or to study phenological patterns and their change over time.
The phenological patterns shown in this viewer are just one of the many interesting outputs that can be provided thanks to complete lists!
SEE lists is possible thanks to the work of the EBP partners in SE Europe and the data collected by the different online bird portals operating in the region.
