Occurrence and monitoring platforms
The infrastructure you build a survey on: observation platforms, camera-trap pipelines, tracking repositories and sound libraries.
13 resources
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iNaturalist
Citizen-science occurrences
Post observations that flow through to GBIF, and mine existing records for a region before fieldwork
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eBird
Bird observations at scale
Pull bird records at a density no survey budget could match, then check effort before trusting trends
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Zooniverse
Citizen-science project platform
Host your own image or audio classification task and let volunteers clear a backlog
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eMammal
Camera-trap data platform
Archive camera-trap images somewhere permanent, with the metadata reviewers will ask for
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Wildlife Insights
Camera-trap data with AI identification
Run camera-trap images through machine identification instead of tagging tens of thousands by hand
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ZSL Instant Wild
Public identification of live camera images
Note that it is paused, so plan live public identification around another platform for now
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Movebank
Animal tracking data repository
Deposit tracking data, or reuse someone else's collar records to test a movement question cheaply
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Wildbook
Individual-ID software for whale sharks and others, now run by Wild Me at Conservation X Labs
Identify individual animals from photographs by pattern matching, which turns tourist photos into capture histories
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ARBIMON
Acoustic monitoring platform
Upload recordings and build pattern-matching models to detect a target call across thousands of hours
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xeno-canto
Bird sound library
Grab reference recordings to train or validate an acoustic detector for a bird species
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NEON
US ecological observatory open data
Use its standardized long-term US ecological data as a control or baseline beside your own
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Wild Map Tracker
Real-time map of wildlife sightings built on iNaturalist data, with a mobile app. A viewer rather than somewhere to submit records, and it names no institution behind it, so treat it as a convenience layer
Scan what has been recorded near a site before a scoping visit, then verify upstream
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Earthdeck
Fast, simple map of more than 30 million GBIF occurrence records, with a US National Parks filter. Openly the work of the independent developer behind the Parkwolf app, so a convenience layer over GBIF rather than a data source in itself
Get a quick visual answer on where a species has been seen, faster than querying GBIF