Collection Name

eBird (en)

eBird (fi)

eBird (sv)

Collection description

eBird Observational Dataset (EOD) accessed though GBIF. The EOD contains basic occurrence data including species, date, and location. Additional metadata associated with these observations, including sampling event data (such as effort), are not included. Observer names have been anonymized. eBird publishes a new version of the data usually once per year. More information: https://ebird.org/science/download-ebird-data-products and https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.537zjz (en)

eBird Observational Dataset (EOD), joka on haettu GBIF:n kautta. EOD sisöltää havaintojen perustietoja, kuten lajin, päivämäärän ja sijainnin. Data ei sisällä lisätietoja kuten havaintotapahtuman tehokkuutta. Havainnoijien nimet on anonymisoitu. eBird julkaisee uuden version datasta yleensä kerran vuodessa. Lisää tietoa: https://ebird.org/science/download-ebird-data-products ja https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.537zjz (fi)

Taxonomic coverage

Aves

Temporal coverage

1800-2024

Geographic coverage

Finland

Collection methods

eBird and methods are described in: Sullivan, B.L., C.L. Wood, M.J. Iliff, R.E. Bonney, D. Fink, and S. Kelling. 2009. eBird: a citizen-based bird observation network in the biological sciences. Biological Conservation 142: 2282-2292.

Collection quality

Data quality description

Observations can be submitted by anyone, and are reviewed by eBird volunteer reviewers that possess expert knowledge of local birds, their distributions and abundances. Coordinates have no accuracy information. Typically coordinates refer to the center point of a larger observation area. (en)

Notes for collection data

Converted from GBIF DwC format to FinBIF DwC format using conversion.py, which is stored at https://wiki.helsinki.fi/xwiki/bin/view/luomusict/Luomus%20Biodiversity%20Informatics%20Unit/IT%20Systems/DW%20%20Data%20warehouse%20%20Tietovarasto%20%20Laji-ETL%20%20dw.laji.fi/eBird%20data%20to%20DW/#

Copyright owner

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Contact email

info@laji.fi

Recommended citation

eBird. 2020. eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance [web application]. eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Accessed through GBIF.org (01 October 2025) GBIF Occurrence Download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.537zjz

Collection size (approx.)

2400000

Percentage digitized (approx.)

100

Number of type specimen (c.)

0

Number of specimens

Number of type specimens

Number of all observations

Date created

24.09.2020 20:43

Date edited

28.10.2025 14:45

Sensitive observation data have undergone obfuscation including spatial aggregation so that precise locations and other sensitive information is not publicly available. The precise location, place names, dates, names of observers and other information may have been obscured or removed. Read more about sensitive observations.

Data may have a research embargo (usually 2–4 years), during which data may have been hidden or obscured as described above. Data producer-owners may have chosen to permanently obfuscate all or part of their data.

To gain access to non-obscured data, you may make a data request. Non-obscured data is also available to Finnish authorities