The EuroBirdPortal (EBP) is establishing a European broad information repository of plane sightings inwards lodge to model the distribution of unlike species of birds over fourth dimension too infinite too to industrial plant life the migratory patterns of those species.
The EBP has released a demonstration map to visualize the calendar week past times calendar week distributional patterns of xv species of birds over 4 years. The map uses CartoDB's Torque library to animate the European broad sightings of the xv species during 2010 to 2013.
The plane sightings map is accompanied past times roughly other map which animates climatic variables, too then that you lot tin flame compare the distribution of the unlike plane species to the annual changes inwards temperature too precipitation. Press play on the map too you lot tin flame persuasion an animation of the plane sightings across Europe for the selected twelvemonth inwards the left-hand map. At the same fourth dimension you lot tin flame persuasion an animation of atmospheric precipitation or temperature records for the same menses on the right-hand map.
