Web-GIS “Faunistica” as an instrument of crowdsourcing collection of information about the WTE

Web-GIS “FAUNISTICS” as an instrument of crowdsourcing collection of information about the WHITE-TAILED SEA EAGLE in Russia and Khazakhstan Elvira Nikolenko Russian Raptor Research and Conservation Network, elnik2007@ya.ru Photos by I. Karyakin, K. Sinkov, R. Bekmansurov

White-tailed Sea Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) The total number in Russia is about 16,000– 22,000 breeding pairs

Russia

Š Igor Karyakin

Web-GIS “FAUNISTICS” – Geospatial Questionnaire System (SGPQ) For collection and analysis of geodatabases © Igor Karyakin – author of algorithm © Danil Kamensky – author of program code © Eugeniy Grachev – author of interface Supported by Global Greengrants Fund

12/12/2012 – web-GIS started to work

Web-GIS “FAUNISTICS” – Geospatial Questionnaire System (SGPQ) http://webgis.pro/

The Web-GIS was developed on the SGPQ engine: Cartographic basis – maps and satellite imagery of Google, OpenStreetMap and Yandex-maps.

Import data into the web-GIS - in GPXformat and KML / KMZ-format.

Output of data from web-GIS – in CSVformat, ESRI shapefile and MapInfo files, as well as reports in MS Word (.doc) and Excel (.xls).

The Faunistics Programme on web-site of Russian Raptor Research and Conservation Network http://rrrcn.ru/birdwatching

Complete instructions for web GIS - http://rrrcn.ru/birdwatching/instruction-web-gis Forum for discussing any issues of the program - http://rrrcn.ru/forum/viewforum.php?f=47

Red Data Book of the Altai Territory on the basis of the Web-GIS "Faunistics“

Cadastre and monitoring of rare species in the Web-GIS "Faunistics" http://raptors.wildlifemonitoring.ru/ “Raptors of the World�

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For 5 years:

149 authors

32 038 points

42 693 observations

70 289 photos

White-tailed Sea Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) 1598 observations in the web-GIS

On the White-tailed Eagle web-GIS “Faunistics” contains 1,522 observations at 1,082 points were made by 65 authors over a period 1973–2017

For 5 years:

65 authors

1,082 points

1,522 observations

Who they are?

– 65 authors of White-tailed Eagle’s observations?

19 pers. make regular observations of eagles and their nests in different regions (292 obs. in 277 points), 42 pers. have 1–5 observations, as a rule, meetings of birds.

3 authors carry out a regular monitoring (1,134 obs. in 709 p.):

Igor Karyakin – in the Altai Territory and others territories Dmitry Shtol – near Novosibirsk city

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In addition to data from “Faunistics”, we take open data from these databases – on the White-tailed Sea Eagle in Russia and Kazakhstan: – 471 observations from 88 authors and 26 observations from population survey data. http://erbirds.ru/

http://sibirds.ru

Total with “Faunistics”: http://birds.kz 2007 observations in Russia and Kazakhstan from 148 authors in the period 1973–2017

http://www.ru-birds.ru/

Date from other crowdsourcing online databases were taken in this report: 1. “Birds of the European territory of Russia� http://erbirds.ru/

Date from other crowdsourcing online databases were taken in this report: 2. “Siberian Birdwatching Community� http://sibirds.ru

Date from other crowdsourcing online databases were taken in this report: 3. “Kazakhstan Birdwatching Community� http://birds.kz

Date from other crowdsourcing online databases were taken in this report:

4. “Online diaries of observations�

http://www.ru-birds.ru

65 authors added into Web-GIS “Faunistics” 1,522 observations at 1,082 points over a period 1973–2017

Total for the report: 2007 observations in Russia and Kazakhstan from 148 authors: – 942 nest observations; – 1069 pair and fledgling observations (include 204 in nesting periods); – 861 – of single birds

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Observations number in regions of Russia and Khazakhstan

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11 11 places places of of concentration concentration of of White-Tailed White-Tailed Eagles Eagles during during the the period period of of migrations migrations 03.05.2013 – 5 birds

01.04.2013 – 14 birds 28.05.2016 28.05.2016 –– 14 14 birds birds 27.05.2015 – 8 birds 02.11.2015 – 42 birds Nov–Dec. 2013 – 79 birds

28.05.2016 – 5 birds 05.01.2014 – 7 birds 18.11.2012 – 4 birds

09.05.2016 – 11 birds 29.12.2013 – 120 birds

Outcomes Crowdsourcing collection of information about rare raptors:

gives qualitative information on the species; specifies the boundaries of the species range; provides information on migration – timing and duration; identify wintering sites.

This information is necessary for the planning of species protection measures.

In 2017 web-GIS “Faunistics” was integrated with GBIF