It's a little abstract, but the map showing swallows breaking out of the south of Iberia, then rapidly heading north is rather cool. You'll get a much better feeling for what this shows, if, early next spring, you find a natural barrier like a river or estuary. Then you can see birds pushing north and understand what these maps are really showing. For extra drama, hope for a strong headwind, and your admiration of what 20 grams of determination can do, will only increase.

It's odd that you can see the borders between Belgium and France for various birds (like the swift and cuckoo), same for the border between Germany and Poland.

I wonder why that is? There are no topological features defining these borders. Maybe the data is normalised in some way across countries?

I see it's a portal tracking bird data from other websites. I am doing the same but for East Africa, not live birds but generally monitoring biodiversity, what is happening from ebird, to Xeno-canto to iNaturalist every week. Any new research grade species, new updates to ebird and XC sound additions. East Africa is very under monitored compared to other places. Still work in progress. https://platform.maiyoinstitute.org/

Website doesn't really work properly. As soon as I change the birds and update, it shows 0 birds for entire timespan.

Would be cool if the data was accessible easily via a public API, but from what it sounds like here that's not really the case https://www.eurobirdportal.org/ebp/en/help/#third_parties

Looks like birds really like Iberia to stay during cooler times, just like many UK, Deutsch and French citizens ;)

Stretching the definition of "live".

This website wants to connect to Google, Amazon, Cloudflare and Twitter among others right off the bat. Great job with the data sovereignty, Europe!

Anything can be represented by a dot on a screen, but not everything makes sense to be appreciated in this way.

In A Flight of Starlings

https://books.google.co.in/books/about/In_a_Flight_of_Starli...

Murmurations. They are local movements in comparison, but no less fascinating.

Die Visualisierung auf dem Eurobirdportal ist wirklich toll gemacht. Es ist spannend zu sehen, wie Echtzeitdaten aggregiert werden, um die Migration über ganz Europa so detailliert nachzuvollziehen.

How do I switch to another bird? I've been on this site for a minute and can't figure it out

If we get the bird design for the new iteration of the Euro notes we can watch a whole nother 'bird' migration.

Why the number of birds decreases and then increases? Is it because migration or due to non-observable previous times?

i find the "old selection" staying up so visible on the screen distracting but i do appreciate this website thanks

This is unusable

Test

But... but birds aren't real!

Are these the flock cameras I keep reading about?