Abstract
The Indian Sarus Crane (Grus antigone antigone), is the world's tallest flying bird and a globally 'Vulnerable' species as per IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is the only resident breeding crane in India. Citizen scientists currently play active roles in a varied range of ecological assignments, and their contributions have enabled scientists to collect large amounts of data at minimal cost. eBird is a large citizen science database that contains a large and growing volume of bird count data which has been successfully used to analyze diversity, distributions of bird species. The present work deals with the utilization and presentation of citizen science data to map the distribution of Sarus Cranes in Uttar Pradesh in the last 10 years (that is 2008 to 2017). Mapping is done using Arc GIS 10.2 software and resulted in various patterns of Sarus sightings in the state. The study concluded that a total of 1,902 Sarus documented by 342 social groups or e-birders from 43 districts of Uttar Pradesh. This study showed public participation as an important data collection tool for the species, which has a reportedly large distribution range. Key words: Birds, public participation, IUCN, eBird, mapping.
Highlights
Analyses of any animal population status and change are fundamental actions of conservation and ecological research
Due to a lack of manpower and funding, a large-scale set of data could not be gathered, so one way of solving this problem is to involve a cadre of citizen scientists who play a significant role in obtaining the data for the larger ecological projects (Ebersole, 2003). eBird is a large citizen science database that holds a large and increasing capacity of bird count data (Sullivan et al, 2009; Callaghan and Gawlik, 2015; La Sorte et al, 2014; Supp et al, 2015; Clark, 2017; Walker and Taylor, 2017)
Study concluded that a total of 1,902 Sarus were documented by 342 social groups or e-birders from 43 districts of Uttar Pradesh from 2008 to 2017 (Table 1)
Summary
Analyses of any animal population status and change are fundamental actions of conservation and ecological research. Citizen scientists currently play active roles in obtaining a large scale data ecological project and their contributions have permitted researchers at the nominal cost. Citizen science was principally considered as an aspect of educational tools, but it is a way to collect large sets of data (Brossard et al, 2005; Evans et al, 2005). Due to a lack of manpower and funding, a large-scale set of data could not be gathered, so one way of solving this problem is to involve a cadre of citizen scientists who play a significant role in obtaining the data for the larger ecological projects (Ebersole, 2003). Due to a lack of manpower and funding, a large-scale set of data could not be gathered, so one way of solving this problem is to involve a cadre of citizen scientists who play a significant role in obtaining the data for the larger ecological projects (Ebersole, 2003). eBird is a large citizen science database that holds a large and increasing capacity of bird count data (Sullivan et al, 2009; Callaghan and Gawlik, 2015; La Sorte et al, 2014; Supp et al, 2015; Clark, 2017; Walker and Taylor, 2017)
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