Each species' detection index , birds counted per point-count, coloured by how it was first detected ( ● singing / ▲ calling / ■ visual ). Each method also carries a marker shape, so it reads without relying on colour.
This is a detection index, not a population : a loud species and a quiet one at equal density give unequal counts. NEON records distance + timing so detectability can be modelled (see a species' detection-decay).
Written from this site's live data.
The shaded band is when NEON ran its breeding point counts here; the curves are the site's average green-up and temperature by month (co-located NEON plant-phenology + air-temperature data, not a bird measurement).
It shows when counts happen against the seasonal cycle, context, not a bird-vs-environment driver model. Counts run only once or twice a year, so there's no within-season bird trend to track.
How many birds live here?
Species richness, a bias-corrected estimate of how many species use the site, and whether enough points were counted to know.
Showing this site onlyAs more point-counts (each point × year is one count) accumulate, how many species turn up. A flattening curve means most detectable species have been found.
Chao2 is an incidence-based, bias-corrected minimum estimate of richness. Point counts miss secretive, nocturnal, and rare species, so the true total is higher than the observed.
Every species on one board
Each dot is a
species
, placed by
ubiquity
(% of points where it's ever detected, a less count-biased axis than the index, though still a detection floor) and its
detection index
(birds per point-count).
Tap a dot
to pin its card; tap “Open species profile” for its full detection profile. Faint dots are too few detections to place reliably.
Bird Board
Each dot is a species , placed by ubiquity (% of points where it's ever detected, a less count-biased axis than the index, though still a detection floor) and its detection index (birds per point-count).
Tap a dot to pin its card; tap “Open species profile” for its full detection profile. Faint dots are too few detections to place reliably.
Each dot is a species, how widespread × how often counted. Tap to pin a card; open any species' full profile.
Showing this site onlyTop-right = everyone's neighbour (widespread + often counted); top-left = locally abundant specialist; bottom-right = thinly everywhere. The gold diamond is the species you're viewing.
Dots are coloured AND shaped by first-detection method, so it reads without relying on colour: ● singing / ▲ calling / ■ visual / ◆ drumming .
One protocol, 46 sites, a continent of climates
Each dot is a NEON site, placed by its breeding-season climate against its bird community. Tap a dot to pin its card or jump to that site.
All 46 NEON sites, not just this oneWarmer, more-productive sites tend to hold more breeding-bird species, a continental temperature–productivity gradient . Each dot is a site; size = survey effort (points counted); colour = biome; the gold diamond is the site you're viewing.
By default, richness is rarefied to a common number of point-counts so it reflects the community, not how hard the site was surveyed (switch the metric with the selector to observed richness, Hill diversity, or mean ubiquity). This is space-for-time , 46 different places observed at once, not one site warming, so it's correlational, confounded by biome and latitude. Precipitation shows only the 19 sites with a NEON gauge.
Search the network
Look across all 46 NEON sites at once, no loading or fetching. Find every site where a species was detected, or list the sites that pass a threshold. Pick a result to load that site and open its Overview.
All 46 NEON sitesBird grids across the site
Each marker is a NEON point-count grid, sized by richness and coloured by your chosen metric. Tap a grid for the full list of birds detected there.
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