Introduction to the data and its source

Minnesota is home to more than 440 different species of birds. This dataset contains the measurements and scientific naming for 444 species of birds in Minnesota. The set of data has been used for class activities and is available for download here https://www.kaggle.com/hannahcollins/minnesota-birds

#Context The data is derived from a list of birds of Minnesota page on Wikipedia. The data contains 17 variables described and 444 rows. For each row of data the name, scientific name, genus, and conservation status and more. The Minnesota Birds data set includes the following information about the 444 species of Minnesota birds: • Name • Scientific Name • Indicator • Category • Kingdom • Phylum • Class • Order • Family • Genus • Conservation Status • Length (Min) • Length (Max) • Weight (Min) • Weight (Max) • Wingspan (Min) • Wingspan (Max)

#Wingspans of Hawks, eagles, and kites by Genus

Below is a point chart with all Hawks, Eagles and Kites in Minnesota excluding The bald eagle due to the characteristics of it that make it an extreme. Here we can see the most common genus in Minnesota is the Bueto Genus. Buteo hawks include many of the most widely distributed, most common, and best-known raptors in the world

#Visual 2

The below visual shows the correlation between the body mass of birds and being vulnerable to extinction. Based this visualization helps disprove the existence of a strong correlation between the mass of the birds in Minnesota and being vulnerable to extinction.

#Visual #3

This visual helps show the correlation between the average body mass of birds by order. This visualization helps better understand similarities between birds of the same family. As we can see most orders have concentrated numbers of birds around the same body mass but Galliformes stand out as an exeption to this observation.

#Visual #4

Based on this visual the only species that can see some difference between wingspan and the conservation status is owls. Based on these findings it is hard to directly determine if their is a correlation between the conservation status and the wingspan of Osprey, Owls,Storks,Hummingbirds,Gnatcatchers

#Visual 5

From this visual it is easy to see that the Anatidae family has the most birds in Minnesota to have considerable larger masses and smaller wingspans. The Anatidae family mostly consists of ducks geese and waterfowl.