Mapping Euro Birds

The EuroBirdPortal (EBP) is establishing a European broad information repository of plane sightings inwards gild to model the distribution of unlike species of birds over fourth dimension too infinite too to institute the migratory patterns of those species.

The EBP has released a demonstration map to visualize the calendar week past times calendar week distributional patterns of fifteen species of birds over 4 years. The map uses CartoDB's Torque library to animate the European broad sightings of the fifteen species during 2010 to 2013.

The plane sightings map is accompanied past times around other map which animates climatic variables, too then that y'all tin compare the distribution of the unlike plane species to the annual changes inwards temperature too precipitation. Press play on the map too y'all tin sentiment an animation of the plane sightings across Europe for the selected twelvemonth inwards the left-hand map. At the same fourth dimension y'all tin sentiment an animation of atmospheric precipitation or temperature records for the same menses on the right-hand map.