The iratebirds Citizen Science Project: a Dataset on Birds' Visual Aesthetic Attractiveness to Humans.

ABSTRACT: Amidst a global biodiversity crisis, shedding light on the factors that make us like a species can help us understand human's nature-related attitudes and inform conservation actions, e.g. by leveraging flagship potential and helping identify threats. Despite scattered attempts to quantify birds' aesthetic attractiveness to humans, there is no large-scale database providing homogeneous measures of aesthetic attractiveness that are comparable across bird species. We present data on the visual aesthetic attractiveness of bird species to humans, generated through an internet browser-based questionnaire. Respondents (n = 6,212) were asked to rate the appearance of bird species on a scale from 1 (low) to 10 (high) based on photographs from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library. The

SUBMITTER: Haukka A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10198970 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature