Identifying engaging bird species and traits with community science observations.

ABSTRACT: Identifying rates at which birders engage with different species can inform the impact and efficacy of conservation outreach and the scientific use of community-collected biodiversity data. Species that are thought to be “charismatic” are often prioritized in conservation, and previous researchers have used sociological experiments and digital records to estimate charisma indirectly. In this study, we take advantage of community science efforts as another record of human engagement with animals that can reveal observer biases directly, which are in part driven by observer preference. We apply a multistage analysis to ask whether opportunistic birders contributing to iNaturalist engage more with larger, more colorful, and rarer birds relative to a baseline approximated from eBird contributo

SUBMITTER: Stoudt S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9169790 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature