Loon count data collected from the year 2000 to 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. A more complete data set with a larger selection of birds can be found in the bird_counts data in the bayesrules package.

loons

Format

A data frame with 18 rows and 5 variables. Each row represents loon observations in the given year.

year

year of data collection

count

number of loons observed

hours

total person-hours of observation period

count_per_hour

count divided by hours

count_per_100

count_per_hour multiplied by 100 hours