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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2023

Feasibility of urban bird occurrence and nest amount evaluation by the street-view image virtual survey.

Panli Tian, Lei Wang, Qi Li, Chentao Liang, Danqi She, Siyu Liu, Yuwen Chen, Liuyang Yao, Weiqi Wang, Huimei Wang and 1 more

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Panli TianKey Laboratory of Forest Plant Ecology, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0002-7721-0351
Lei WangKey Laboratory of Forest Plant Ecology, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, People's Republic of China.
Qi LiKey Laboratory of Forest Plant Ecology, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, People's Republic of China.
Chentao LiangKey Laboratory of Forest Plant Ecology, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, People's Republic of China.
Danqi SheKey Laboratory of Forest Plant Ecology, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, People's Republic of China.
Siyu LiuState Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, College of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou 311300, People's Republic of China.
Yuwen ChenKey Laboratory of Forest Plant Ecology, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, People's Republic of China.
Liuyang YaoKey Laboratory of Forest Plant Ecology, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, People's Republic of China.
Weiqi WangSchool of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, People's Republic of China.
Huimei WangState Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, College of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou 311300, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0002-5312-5072
Wenjie WangNortheast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun 130102, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0003-0465-686X

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Bird observation mainly relies on field surveys, which are time-consuming and laborious. In this study, we explored using street-view images in the virtual survey of urban birds and nests. Using the coastal city of Qingdao as the study area, 47 201 seamless spherical photos at 2741 sites were collected using the Baidu street-view (BSV) map. Single-rater-all photo checks and seven-rater-metapopulation checks were used to find inter-rater repeatability, the best viewing layer for BSV collection, and possible environments affecting the results. We also collected community science data for comparison. The BSV time machine was used to assess the temporal dynamics. Kappa square test, generalized linear model, redundancy ordination and ArcMap were used in the analysis. Different rater repeatability was 79.1% in nest evaluations and 46.9% in bird occurrence. A re-check of the different-rating photos can increase them to 92% and 70%. Seven-rater statistics showed that more than 5% sampling ratio could produce a non-significant different bird and nest percentage of the whole data, and the higher sampling ratio could reduce the variation. The middle-viewing layer survey alone could produce 93% precision of the nest checks by saving 2/3 of the time used; in birds, selecting middle and upper-view photos could find 97% of bird occurrences. In the spatial distribution, the nest's hotspot areas from this method were much greater than the community science bird-watching sites. The BSV time machine made it possible to re-check nests in the same sites but challenging the re-check of bird occurrences. The nests and birds can be observed more in the leafless season, on wide, traffic-dense coastal streets with complex vertical structures of trees, and in the gaps of tall buildings dominated by road forests. Our results indicate that BSV photos could be used to virtually evaluate bird occurrence and nests from their numbers, spatial distribution and temporal dynamics. This method provides a pre-experimental and informative supplement to large-scale bird occurrence and nest abundance surveys in urban environments.

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ForestsNesting BehaviorAnimalsBirdsFeasibility StudiesTreesBaidu street-viewmethodological suitabilityspatial distributiontemporal changes

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PMCPMC10113023

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