What bird when?

Motivation

Method

The tool

Getting the data

eBird make the whole checklist data available from https://ebird.org/data/download/ebd - this allows

`summarise()` has grouped output by "year" and "month". You can override using
the `.groups` argument.

The number of complete EB checklists submitted for Minsmere has increased steadily over the last few years. The peak months for checklist submission is April to June, coinciding with the spring migration period. The average weekly checklist submission rate for the period 2020-2024 is around 20-30 during the peak months, with lower numbers in the winter months.

`summarise()` has grouped output by "year", "month", and "week". You can
override using the `.groups` argument.

Individual species

`geom_smooth()` using formula = 'y ~ s(x, bs = "cs")'

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