Bird Counts Data

Bird count data collected between the years 1921 and 2017, in late December, by birdwatchers in the Ontario, Canada area. The data was made available by the Bird Studies Canada website and distributed through the R for Data Science TidyTuesday project.

bird_counts

Format

A data frame with 18706 rows and 7 variables. Each row represents observations for the given bird species in the given year.

year

year of data collection

species

scientific name of observed bird species

species_latin

latin name of observed bird species

count

number of birds observed

hours

total person-hours of observation period

count_per_hour

count divided by hours

count_per_week

count_per_hour multiplied by 168 hours per week

Source

https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/blob/master/data/2019/2019-06-18/bird_counts.csv/.