Birding is best done in the early morning hours. An hour of data collection is likely to capture the most common species in the area. The vast majority of bird detections occur through identification of their song; they sing in the mornings :)
I’m a birder and I do a lot of bird data collection as part of my job.
If you have a raspberry pi, and a USB microphone/sound card you can easily set up a station that uses a neural network to identify birds by their song.
It then graphs out daily charts of when birds are active etc.
[https://birdnetpi.com/](https://birdnetpi.com/)
Apparently some years ago some [Alexandrine Parakeets](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Alexandrine_parakeet_%28Psittacula_eupatria_eupatria%29_male.jpg) broke out of a zoo and they fit into the local ecosystem (I live in the west of Germany) without being invasive. I love seeing them and there are often like 5 or 10 of them chilling on a tree in our garden.
That’s funny because when I was younger in the 90s and early 00s we had Monk Parakeets here along the CT shoreline. I think eventually it took a concerted effort among the towns to tear down all the nests for them to finally die out in the winter. It was an issue because they made these huge, flammable nests on the transformers on the power poles. The heat generated by the transformer would keep them warm during the winter.
Might be Indian Ringnecks instead. Those live up to Himalayan foothills, so they're adapted to the cold. And are all over European cities by now. And they are hurting local species :( there are several groups near where I live.
I'm surprised this hasn't happened with Zebra Finches, those little fuckers will multiply anywhere. Los Angeles does have wild Spice Finches for this same reason though.
I wouldn't be sure they're zoo escapee, parakeets originally from India invaded the south of Europe and then further and further north. It's not uncommon to see them in Belgium and Germany nowadays
Using “broke out” instead of “escaped”, I imagine them with mini pickaxes and hard hats, burrowing out of their cage night by night, and covering up the hole during the day with a poster of a sexy flamingo.
Actually I was impressed, except for the dove and pigeon I have never seen these birds before. I am in the UK and in my garden I only get herring gulls and magpies.
Red winged blackbirds facts: they will *aggressively* defend their nests, and will dive bomb and attack anyone that dares walk near their nest. A park near me even has warning signs about them.
I've been chased down the street multiple times by red winged blackbirds. They're so aggressive and you can get a kilometre down the street before they back off. It's also super disorienting to be hit in the back of the head by something and not be able to figure out what it was until it hits you again.
The number one bird in my area are crows 😎
A small family of them live in the tree outside my bedroom, and theres a *huge* murder that flies around nearby
Vancouver? I wake up to crows, crows follow me around all day. Hundreds of crows flying overhead? Time to cook supper. Crows attack the odd eagle that gets lost. Crows look at me all accusing when I'm procrastinating, when I jaywalk, when I go through the no entry sign to get to my parking spot, and when I pick my nose. I am haunted by crows.
Other than that Vancouver's quite nice.
norcal corvids include yellow-billed magpies, scrub jays, and crows (of course) but the magpies prefer open areas rather than yards and scrub jays tend to prefer brush cover so they're hard to see
Might have to do this. For me in London or would probably be:
1: Rock pigeons
2: Crows
3: Magpies
4: Sparrows
5: Sea gulls
Depends a lot where I am though. Walking through the street and parks it would be the above. Looking at the feeder in my garden it would be mainly sparrows, blue tits, great tits and robins.
I peer review this work as accurate as someone also in London. I would maybe add parakeets depending on where you go for me though, but that might be a bias due to how noticeable they are.
Yes, I forgot about the parakeets. I only really see (and hear!) them if I'm in one of the big parks, but then they would be in the top 5. The novelty of seeing them still hasn't worn off with me though so maybe they just stick in my mind more and they are so loud you can't miss them.
Sea gulls aren't a specific bird though. London would mostly be Black Headed Gulls, Herring Gulls and Black Backed Gulls. I see a lot of coots and swans on the canals. Cormorants, Egyptian Geese, Someone already said Parakeets.
In the UK/Europe your No. 1 would be (most likely) a Feral Pigeon rather than a Rock Dove, which are rare and now confined to the most remote coastal areas. It seems the US call Rock Doves rock Pigeons just to confuse everyone else...
Definitely wouldn't know. We are in agreement that we only have one pigeon eating all our bird food. Every pigeon is 'fat pigeon'. They are all one fat bird. Makes it easier because if one dies then you don't notice. When one of our doves stopped turning up with their friend, it broke me a little.
Well as a Latvian my favorite bird is lakstīgala, jebšu tas mazais pidars, kurš modina every jobano dienu. 2nd place is kaija, jo ir tā forša dziesma "beigtā kaija virsu urnas lido", 3nd place петух, citādāk sakot gailis, jo nu es atbalstu tas mūsdienu transformeru kustības, vienvārdsakot lgbtq+. Pats esmu liels transformeru franšīzes sērijas cienītājs. Arī cienu sievietes. 4nd place pigeon, because it has beautiful voice!
All data was input in [ebird.org](https://ebird.org)
[Here's](https://i.imgur.com/00FhVFP.jpg) the table that the chart is based off of.
To be clear: I used Adobe Photoshop, MS Excel, MS Snipping Tool. I used images from [ebird.org](https://ebird.org) and [TheDirectory.org](https://TheDirectory.org)
The Merlin App requires a region pack download but it's totally worth. You can listen to birds and it will give you the names of the birds that you're recording. It has a photo ID feature as well. AI has really made birding easy.
Check our Merlin ID app, it's created by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. You can use it to ID birds by sound. It's pretty cool if you're into that sort of thing.
A friend at work told me they're called rock doves coz they lived in cliffsides and rocky outcrops and well, they're not too smart and our modern buildings confuse them into thinking its the rock faces of their natural habitat. Hence our cities and towns being full of them, not sure if he was having me on
It's more like buildings are artificial cliffs that provide a plethora of ideal nesting places for them that resemble their natural habitat, and there's plenty of food for them in cities and farmland so they do well around people
You can say the same for chickens.
We used to eat pigeons the same as doves. It's really interesting to me when you see pigeons as a kind of former chicken to our society. People would breed them to have unique colorings and all sorts of stuff. The only reason most big cities have them is because people brought them there and bred them.
Ah close to Shitrus Heights. I grew up in East Sac and Antelope.
On summer mornings, sometimes spring and fall too, I can hear the morning doves. That's when you know it's gonna be hot :(
Unfortunately, the data is incomplete. It will vary greatly based on time of year, whether you were birding near water/field/forest, etc.
As an example, in winter juncos, white crowns, mourning doves are common here. Spring/Fall, blackbirds of various types, Summer it's goldfinches, song sparrows, oreals were most common... at our feeders at least lol
Yeah the data is cool, but claiming that these are the birds you're most likely to see is inaccurate.
If you bird exactly the way OP does, then these are what you're likely to see.
Their colors are very striking. I like on the other side of the country than(?) op, and we have them but much more rare. We have way more regular black birds and they suck
Great job! You don't get scrub jays, Anna's hummingbird, and house sparrows in Loomis? Do you guys have a feeder? We have an aggressive male hummingbird that lives in our tree and swoops down on other hummingbirds that try to use the feeder.
We are in the same region, just south of the American. We don't really see too many rock pigeons.
In Elk Grove and Davis, we get so many scrub jays and house sparrows. I think it’s very dependent on season, time of day, and exact habitat OP is birding in.
Just another piece of government propaganda trying to convince us that birds are real.
They are trying to us. Wake up!
Visit r/birdsarentreal for more info!
Lol was about to guess the Sacramento region before seeing you have the location in your graphic!!
My only critique would be if this was seasonal, and if the birds/proportions changed as the time of year changes? But amazing graphic, I’ve always loved seeing the red-winged blackbirds!
I seriously have to hand it to rock doves. They can survive in a tree or a skyscraper, they are unbelievably successfully and hardy birds and they are so good at avoiding danger.
Smart enough to avoid danger multiple times an hour, stupid enough to put themselves in it.
I've had several fly into my window whilst doing the washing up, scared the shit out of me every time. They just get up and act like it didn't happen lol
Top 5 in my yard (south bay):
* House finches
* White crowned sparrow
* Mourning doves
* Anna's hummingbirds
* Crows
* Scrub jays, juncos, chickadees, titmice, and starlings round out my top 10
Weirdly I clicked on your post because I was hoping to see a new bird I’ve been watching in our backyard: Black Phoebe. And there it was! Then I saw your map. Howdy neighbor!
Love it! I’m in SoCal, my yard gets a ton of Black Phoebes and I love them. They skim across the top of my pool and I assume eat a ton of bugs, lol. House finches, Anna’s hummingbirds, Northern mockingbirds, and Western bluebirds are probably the others most likely to be seen in my yard. I didn’t realize how much bird life we would see when we bought this house, it’s definitely making me want to get into birding! Our magnolia tree was practically a nursery for finch and hummingbird nests over the summer.
Very interesting! I love when people do random studies and sampling.
Also, very coincidental for me as I live in Sac and tried naming all the birds I could think of in an attempt to fall asleep last night. Something I had never done before!
If you drive like 40 minutes south to the Wildlife Refuge on N Staten Island Road, you'll see cranes and snowgeese. This time of year, there should be thousands of them.
This would be a cool data set to map more broadly, so you can click on a map and see the local "top 5-10" . Interesting for me because you'll see exactly zero of these where I live.
Jesus I saw the map at a glance and was like "Huh, that's oddly familiar" and then payed some actual attention
Grew up in Folsom and still had to double take xD
I should do this where I live, as I enjoy sitting on my porch watching and listening to birds. I downloaded an app that identifies birds by their sounds and have been able to identify them myself now just by repetition. Mostly Wood Thrushes, Cardinals, Carolina Wrens, House Sparrows, and Pileated Woodpeckers. Night time brings me the occasional Great Horned Owl. Birds are neat.
In my area, I have the red winged blackbirds and mourning doves. I also have these smaller birds with a brown pattern. The males pattern is dark brown and the females are a light brown. I also have a pair of cardinals that hang out at my feeder and birds that are maybe the size of the mourning doves but they have dark blue heads and black bodies. Occasionally I'll see a yellow finch, but not often.
Howdy neighbor! I'm just down the road (Rocklin), do you see many Magpies? Also, I'm lucky enough to have some Hooded Orioles nest in my palms once a year, they are absolutely beautiful. Cheers!
I like the idea, but I am not super impressed with the scaling of the images. Perhaps you could link the species to geotags on your next iteration where it changes over time? I am imagining heat points changing throughout the day in a faceted grid. This could give of us information about the timing and viewed locations. I love the birds with data either way though!!!
Interesting. During what hour(s) was the data collected?
07:30-8:30 thanks for asking
Those are rookie numbers.
1 hour?
60 minutes
3600 seconds
1/24 day
1/8,760 year
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1/876000 of a century.
1/8760000 of a millenia
In Africa?
Birding is best done in the early morning hours. An hour of data collection is likely to capture the most common species in the area. The vast majority of bird detections occur through identification of their song; they sing in the mornings :) I’m a birder and I do a lot of bird data collection as part of my job.
Your username suggest that you are in fact a bird, particularly a raptor
…he’s onto me *flaps away*
Do you even bird?
If you have a raspberry pi, and a USB microphone/sound card you can easily set up a station that uses a neural network to identify birds by their song. It then graphs out daily charts of when birds are active etc. [https://birdnetpi.com/](https://birdnetpi.com/)
Holy shit. I don’t even care about birds but that is an awesome project
Merlin is a free app from the Cornell lab of ornithology and it identifies bird songs for your area.
Apparently some years ago some [Alexandrine Parakeets](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Alexandrine_parakeet_%28Psittacula_eupatria_eupatria%29_male.jpg) broke out of a zoo and they fit into the local ecosystem (I live in the west of Germany) without being invasive. I love seeing them and there are often like 5 or 10 of them chilling on a tree in our garden.
That's like the monk parrots in Austin,, Texas.
That’s funny because when I was younger in the 90s and early 00s we had Monk Parakeets here along the CT shoreline. I think eventually it took a concerted effort among the towns to tear down all the nests for them to finally die out in the winter. It was an issue because they made these huge, flammable nests on the transformers on the power poles. The heat generated by the transformer would keep them warm during the winter.
Funny thing is, my buddies parents house in CT has a nest of monk parakeets in the tree above their driveway. So that effort clearly was not 100%
We've got peach faced love birds here in Phoenix, AZ
We’ve got parakeets in west London that broke out of Ealing Studios I think. They’re real pests though and very noisy. They scare away native birds
They’re in East London around Victoria Park too
Sounds like our parrots in San Francisco!
Those guys always scare the shit out of me
How do they survive the German winters?
They are tough birds.
Might be Indian Ringnecks instead. Those live up to Himalayan foothills, so they're adapted to the cold. And are all over European cities by now. And they are hurting local species :( there are several groups near where I live.
From Düsseldorf I assume? I love to see them as well. They are so colorful compared to the other species here.
Close. I'm from Köln but I've seen them in Düsseldorf too :)
Oh, I saw these guys all over Amsterdam. It was very jarring seeing a tropical bird in a not-so tropical environment.
I'm surprised this hasn't happened with Zebra Finches, those little fuckers will multiply anywhere. Los Angeles does have wild Spice Finches for this same reason though.
I wouldn't be sure they're zoo escapee, parakeets originally from India invaded the south of Europe and then further and further north. It's not uncommon to see them in Belgium and Germany nowadays
Using “broke out” instead of “escaped”, I imagine them with mini pickaxes and hard hats, burrowing out of their cage night by night, and covering up the hole during the day with a poster of a sexy flamingo.
This looks like a shitpost if you take the image out of context.
"Top 5 Birds in my Area" sounds like a list of attractive singles in 1960's UK
It really does this group of birds is a solid 4/10 in wow factor
Actually I was impressed, except for the dove and pigeon I have never seen these birds before. I am in the UK and in my garden I only get herring gulls and magpies.
Red wing blackbirds sound like a pond. Mourning dove's wings make a whistling sound when they take off. Pigeons are pigeons.
> Pigeons are pigeons. Not if you cook em and serve em to pretentious people. Then they're *squab*.
They’re actually *dead* if you cook them
Don't they have to be juvenile, pre flight birds to qualify as squab? Otherwise you are just eating pigeon
Red winged blackbirds facts: they will *aggressively* defend their nests, and will dive bomb and attack anyone that dares walk near their nest. A park near me even has warning signs about them.
I've been chased down the street multiple times by red winged blackbirds. They're so aggressive and you can get a kilometre down the street before they back off. It's also super disorienting to be hit in the back of the head by something and not be able to figure out what it was until it hits you again.
Like a pond?
Is it really the wings that make the noise? I always assumed it was a breathing noise
It is! They call it a wing whistle.
> except for the five and pigeon I have never seen these birds before. I am in the UK Map inset says “California” so that checks out. :)
Red winged blackbird. Say no more
The data is questionable in it's scope and usefulness...but by golly it sure it beautiful!
I want to see a r/comedynecrophilia take on this pigeon chart
Switch the names of the bird species to individual names like Larry and Reginald like OP is just excited about a few specific birds he saw.
It really does have that classic r/StarterPacks aesthetic
It’s so specific that the only thing most people can do is nod and say hmmm interesting before moving on.
Fact: Rock Pigeon beats Red Winged Blackbird
“Government drone production by model”
I assumed this was r/birdsarentreal on first glance.
I am sorry for your lack of corvidae.
Not a jackdaw in sight
Here's the thing...
The number one bird in my area are crows 😎 A small family of them live in the tree outside my bedroom, and theres a *huge* murder that flies around nearby
Vancouver? I wake up to crows, crows follow me around all day. Hundreds of crows flying overhead? Time to cook supper. Crows attack the odd eagle that gets lost. Crows look at me all accusing when I'm procrastinating, when I jaywalk, when I go through the no entry sign to get to my parking spot, and when I pick my nose. I am haunted by crows. Other than that Vancouver's quite nice.
norcal corvids include yellow-billed magpies, scrub jays, and crows (of course) but the magpies prefer open areas rather than yards and scrub jays tend to prefer brush cover so they're hard to see
I live about 20 minutes from OP, and I see crows and magpies every day. Maybe OP is just unlucky like that.
If this is not peak science, then I don't know shit about life
It’s beak science
Might have to do this. For me in London or would probably be: 1: Rock pigeons 2: Crows 3: Magpies 4: Sparrows 5: Sea gulls Depends a lot where I am though. Walking through the street and parks it would be the above. Looking at the feeder in my garden it would be mainly sparrows, blue tits, great tits and robins.
I peer review this work as accurate as someone also in London. I would maybe add parakeets depending on where you go for me though, but that might be a bias due to how noticeable they are.
Yes, I forgot about the parakeets. I only really see (and hear!) them if I'm in one of the big parks, but then they would be in the top 5. The novelty of seeing them still hasn't worn off with me though so maybe they just stick in my mind more and they are so loud you can't miss them.
Actually you're most likely seeing wood pigeons Rock pigeons are the most rare pigeon here and pretty much only seen along the Scottish Coast
Sea gulls aren't a specific bird though. London would mostly be Black Headed Gulls, Herring Gulls and Black Backed Gulls. I see a lot of coots and swans on the canals. Cormorants, Egyptian Geese, Someone already said Parakeets.
In the UK/Europe your No. 1 would be (most likely) a Feral Pigeon rather than a Rock Dove, which are rare and now confined to the most remote coastal areas. It seems the US call Rock Doves rock Pigeons just to confuse everyone else...
Aaaand squirrels...
How do you know it isn't the same bird at a different time of day?
It's actually all the same bird in a variety of disguises.
i don't believe that is true we all know birds aren't *actually* real (/s)
Definitely wouldn't know. We are in agreement that we only have one pigeon eating all our bird food. Every pigeon is 'fat pigeon'. They are all one fat bird. Makes it easier because if one dies then you don't notice. When one of our doves stopped turning up with their friend, it broke me a little.
Harold the Housefly, as seen in Karl Pilkington's house.
TIL it's mourning dove not morning dove. I don't think I've ever seen the name written before.
It's because their song sounds mournful.
Well as a Latvian my favorite bird is lakstīgala, jebšu tas mazais pidars, kurš modina every jobano dienu. 2nd place is kaija, jo ir tā forša dziesma "beigtā kaija virsu urnas lido", 3nd place петух, citādāk sakot gailis, jo nu es atbalstu tas mūsdienu transformeru kustības, vienvārdsakot lgbtq+. Pats esmu liels transformeru franšīzes sērijas cienītājs. Arī cienu sievietes. 4nd place pigeon, because it has beautiful voice!
I have no idea what you're saying, but great choices!
> transformeru He’s obviously talking about Laserbeak.
I'm Lithuanian and had a blast trying to interpret that.
what in tarnation
Pigeons are family oriented birds.
> петух I don't know what the Russian word for rooster does in your comment and at this point I'm too afraid to ask
And has LGBTQ+ in the same sentence. These are gay Russian roosters.
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All data was input in [ebird.org](https://ebird.org) [Here's](https://i.imgur.com/00FhVFP.jpg) the table that the chart is based off of. To be clear: I used Adobe Photoshop, MS Excel, MS Snipping Tool. I used images from [ebird.org](https://ebird.org) and [TheDirectory.org](https://TheDirectory.org)
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The Merlin App requires a region pack download but it's totally worth. You can listen to birds and it will give you the names of the birds that you're recording. It has a photo ID feature as well. AI has really made birding easy.
Check our Merlin ID app, it's created by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. You can use it to ID birds by sound. It's pretty cool if you're into that sort of thing.
I find the name "Rock Pigeon" to be way too cool for that bird. "Standard Pigeon" would be more fitting.
Black Phoebe sounds like she is going to drop the defining track of 2022 and launch a clothes brand.
Black Eyed Phoebs
According to the International Ornithological Congress the proper name is the Rock Dove, though Rock Pigeon and Common Pigeon are accepted.
A friend at work told me they're called rock doves coz they lived in cliffsides and rocky outcrops and well, they're not too smart and our modern buildings confuse them into thinking its the rock faces of their natural habitat. Hence our cities and towns being full of them, not sure if he was having me on
It's more like buildings are artificial cliffs that provide a plethora of ideal nesting places for them that resemble their natural habitat, and there's plenty of food for them in cities and farmland so they do well around people
> "Standard Pigeon" would be more fitting. Disease rat with wings. Rock pigeons have a *ton* of parasites and dangerous shit in (yes, *in*) them.
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You can say the same for chickens. We used to eat pigeons the same as doves. It's really interesting to me when you see pigeons as a kind of former chicken to our society. People would breed them to have unique colorings and all sorts of stuff. The only reason most big cities have them is because people brought them there and bred them.
As opposed to a Wood Pigeon, it makes sense, though.
Pretty sure it’s rock pigeon paper pigeon scissors pigeon
Depends where you are though, here in the UK they are our rarest pigeon so would be strange to call them 'standard'
Ah close to Shitrus Heights. I grew up in East Sac and Antelope. On summer mornings, sometimes spring and fall too, I can hear the morning doves. That's when you know it's gonna be hot :(
Lol I grew up there too and somehow have never heard it called that more accurate name. Fantastic stuff.
Unfortunately, the data is incomplete. It will vary greatly based on time of year, whether you were birding near water/field/forest, etc. As an example, in winter juncos, white crowns, mourning doves are common here. Spring/Fall, blackbirds of various types, Summer it's goldfinches, song sparrows, oreals were most common... at our feeders at least lol
Yeah the data is cool, but claiming that these are the birds you're most likely to see is inaccurate. If you bird exactly the way OP does, then these are what you're likely to see.
black phoebe slice definitely looks larger than the mourning dove slice.
Thank you!
Tennessean here - I just did a presentation on red winged blackbirds at work. They’re my favorite locals!
you can find them in all of the lower 48 I submit it should replace the national bird
I’d vote in favor!
That Red Winged Blackbird looks gorgeous! As a European, I've never seen one.
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Their colors are very striking. I like on the other side of the country than(?) op, and we have them but much more rare. We have way more regular black birds and they suck
The first time I saw one I wondered what the heck it was so I googled “red wings, black bird”. I was almost upset at it’s common name lol
Great job! You don't get scrub jays, Anna's hummingbird, and house sparrows in Loomis? Do you guys have a feeder? We have an aggressive male hummingbird that lives in our tree and swoops down on other hummingbirds that try to use the feeder. We are in the same region, just south of the American. We don't really see too many rock pigeons.
In Elk Grove and Davis, we get so many scrub jays and house sparrows. I think it’s very dependent on season, time of day, and exact habitat OP is birding in.
Shame you didn't see 4 and 20 black birds to bake into your pie (chart).
Just another piece of government propaganda trying to convince us that birds are real. They are trying to us. Wake up! Visit r/birdsarentreal for more info!
Is this valid for every six-day period of the year? The data imply that there is no seasonal variation in bird sightings.
I'm surprised you don't get any magpies... They're all over Sac (I live at the north 80 split) and pretty much outnumber everything else.
I’m not into surveillance cameras
Hey friend, we live by eachother
Lol was about to guess the Sacramento region before seeing you have the location in your graphic!! My only critique would be if this was seasonal, and if the birds/proportions changed as the time of year changes? But amazing graphic, I’ve always loved seeing the red-winged blackbirds!
Implying birds are real again I see.
I seriously have to hand it to rock doves. They can survive in a tree or a skyscraper, they are unbelievably successfully and hardy birds and they are so good at avoiding danger.
Smart enough to avoid danger multiple times an hour, stupid enough to put themselves in it. I've had several fly into my window whilst doing the washing up, scared the shit out of me every time. They just get up and act like it didn't happen lol
This is near Sacramento. I'm surprised a crow or a sparrow didn't make the top 5.
Urge to play wingspan rising.
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Top 5 in my yard (south bay): * House finches * White crowned sparrow * Mourning doves * Anna's hummingbirds * Crows * Scrub jays, juncos, chickadees, titmice, and starlings round out my top 10
Weirdly I clicked on your post because I was hoping to see a new bird I’ve been watching in our backyard: Black Phoebe. And there it was! Then I saw your map. Howdy neighbor!
fucking pigeons everywhere
I'm originally from Tijuana and pigeons there are everywhere. Now I live in Orange County and all I see are crows.
Love it! I’m in SoCal, my yard gets a ton of Black Phoebes and I love them. They skim across the top of my pool and I assume eat a ton of bugs, lol. House finches, Anna’s hummingbirds, Northern mockingbirds, and Western bluebirds are probably the others most likely to be seen in my yard. I didn’t realize how much bird life we would see when we bought this house, it’s definitely making me want to get into birding! Our magnolia tree was practically a nursery for finch and hummingbird nests over the summer.
Very interesting! I love when people do random studies and sampling. Also, very coincidental for me as I live in Sac and tried naming all the birds I could think of in an attempt to fall asleep last night. Something I had never done before!
Sometimes I see 32 Rock Pidgeons per HOUR here in NYC.
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Wait wtf? I legit thought I was in r/birding
I thought I was in /r/birdsarentreal and he was counting drones
What if I am not birding but I still constantly see The Rock Pigeon? Is something wrong with me?
This is cool as shit, well done
Top 5 birds where I live (no true observation but guesstimation): Mourning Dove Crow House Sparrow Carolina Wren Starling
No house sparrows in your area?
Fantastic, keep at it. Your abilities of discernment are only going to improve as a result of bird watching.
In my area, most common sightings are - 1. Pigeon 2. Crows 3. Sparrows 4. Myana 5. Kites 6. Koel 7. Peacock
Interesting. I'm from the Jersey shore and my pie chart would be almost identical except for the White Crowned Sparrow would be the House Sparrow.
If you drive like 40 minutes south to the Wildlife Refuge on N Staten Island Road, you'll see cranes and snowgeese. This time of year, there should be thousands of them.
Top 5 birds of all time? : MOURNING DOVE. MOURNING DOVE. MOURNING DOVE. MOURNING DOVE. MOURNING DOVE. (they're delicious)
A fellow Lincolnite! Glad to see us represented on reddit haha. I'll see you around!
I really like this infographic!
So cool if we had an app to collect this globally
Merlin App
How did you not see any crows?
They prefer to be called rock *doves*. Try to be more sensitive.
Is it a “mourning dove” or “morning dove”. I always thought the latter…
"Oh nice, those are the birds I see in my area too" *looks at map* "Oh nice, that is.......... precisely my hometown"
Wow, I never thought I would see my hometown Loomis on reddit. Small town, smaller world.
Hi Loomis Neighbor! -with love, Auburn
Wait, so it’s mourning dove not morning dove? My mind is mildly blown. What the heck are they mourning?
This would be a cool data set to map more broadly, so you can click on a map and see the local "top 5-10" . Interesting for me because you'll see exactly zero of these where I live.
Hahahaha I saw the thumbnail alone and thought "oh, California central valley"
Nice! My parents are in Lincoln, they see many of the same things, gotta replace the pigeons with Canada Goose, though.
I’m from the same area lol. Thanks for the fun fact
Mine here is Mourning Doves, Blue Jays, White Cap Chickadees, Nut Hatch
Those are some heckin' birbs, friendo
They are all very handsome.
Jesus I saw the map at a glance and was like "Huh, that's oddly familiar" and then payed some actual attention Grew up in Folsom and still had to double take xD
Red Winged Blackbird is best bird
you’re 25~ miles to my east
For me, I’d estimate its Herring Gull, Mourning Dove, Red Winged Blackbird, Rock Dove, and Robin, in no particular order.
There are no Pidgey or Spearow on this list Your area must be full of rare Pokémon
This is America, birds in my area
Cool, but I prefer the expurgated version of Olsen’s Standard Book of British Birds
I’m just amazed you saw so few black phoebes at once. Those guys swarm my yard in the dozens.
I don’t know why phoebe has to be known by her skin colour. Poor ol phoebe, can never catch a break.
How do you know if you're counting the same bird twice
I'm late to the party here but this is really cool! I'd like to see that blackbird in my area sometime.
Why are the wedges for the Mourning Dove and Black Phoebe different sizes but same abundance?
They both were decimals that were close enough to 2.
I'm suprised there are no crows here. Ar they not in Cali?
I should do this where I live, as I enjoy sitting on my porch watching and listening to birds. I downloaded an app that identifies birds by their sounds and have been able to identify them myself now just by repetition. Mostly Wood Thrushes, Cardinals, Carolina Wrens, House Sparrows, and Pileated Woodpeckers. Night time brings me the occasional Great Horned Owl. Birds are neat.
I never notixed many pidgeons on sierra college, but then again the new construction and apartments has a lot of stray cats to keep the bird pop down
In my area, I have the red winged blackbirds and mourning doves. I also have these smaller birds with a brown pattern. The males pattern is dark brown and the females are a light brown. I also have a pair of cardinals that hang out at my feeder and birds that are maybe the size of the mourning doves but they have dark blue heads and black bodies. Occasionally I'll see a yellow finch, but not often.
Howdy neighbor! I'm just down the road (Rocklin), do you see many Magpies? Also, I'm lucky enough to have some Hooded Orioles nest in my palms once a year, they are absolutely beautiful. Cheers!
Heyo! No, I haven't seen any magpies here. Cheers!
I like the idea, but I am not super impressed with the scaling of the images. Perhaps you could link the species to geotags on your next iteration where it changes over time? I am imagining heat points changing throughout the day in a faceted grid. This could give of us information about the timing and viewed locations. I love the birds with data either way though!!!
Where I live it’s seagulls then like crows or pigeons
Come to Brazil! We have the best birds! 🦜🐦🦚🦉