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Novel estimates of bird migration traffic at the continental US scale using participatory science data

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  • 1. ROR icon University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • 2. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithica
  • 3. EDMO icon University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • 4. ROR icon University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Data and code supporting an article submission: "Novel estimates of bird migration traffic at the continental US scale using participatory science data"

We introduce BirdFlow migration traffic rate (BMTR), a location-based metric of migratory passage for individual species computed from BirdFlow models. BMTR quantifies the weekly proportion of a species’ population passing over a transect, can be calculated across a species’ entire range, and can be converted to absolute numbers using population estimates.

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Publication: 10.1111/geb.70236 (DOI)

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