animals

naturbeobachtung.at

Project lead: Gernot Neuwirth
"Naturschutzbund Österreich"
Address: Naturschutzbund Österreich Museumsplatz 2 5020 Salzburg
Telephone: (+43) 662 / 642909 - 20
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Topic: Plants, Animals, Mushrooms
Activity: photography, counting, identifying, locating, discussing, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.naturbeobachtung.at/platform/mo/nabeat/index.do
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Since 2006, a wide variety of nature observations can be reported on naturbeobachtung.at. Specially designed reporting masks for various groups of animals, plants and fungi allow detailed entries. The reporters can, as far as possible, identify their observations taxonomically or report them as "undetermined species". The latter can then be subsequently identified by the community. Optionally, more precise reports are possible, e. g. with weather data or a detailed description of the site...

Ural owl

Project lead: RIchard Zink
Vetmeduni Vienna
Address: Field office Seebarn: Hauptstraße 68, 3438 Seebarn am Wagram Vetmeduni: Savoyenstraße 1a, 1160 Wien
Telephone: 01-25077-7211
Topic: Animals
Activity: photography, counting, identifying, locating, taking care, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://habichtskauz.at/

Ural owl resettlementThe resettlement of the Ural owl is led by a team of researchers headed by ornithologist Richard Zink at the Austrian Ornithological Centre at "Vetmeduni" Vienna. The goal is the "Come Back" of the big owl into the forests of Austria. A new occurrence in the alps creates an essential link between the populations south (Slovenia, Italy) and north (Germany, Czech Republic) of the Alpine republic. Individual owls migrating between these populations ensure gene flow...

StadtWildTiere Vienna ("UrbanWildAnimals")

Project lead: Richard Zink
Verein Entdecke und Bewahre Natur
Address: Verein Entdecke und Bewahre Natur Trautbach 22 3491 Elsarn im Strassertal Vetmeduni Vienna: Savoyenstraße 1a, 1160 Wien
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Topic: Animals, Land use
Activity: photography, counting, locating, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://stadtwildtiere.at/
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Have you ever seen a sparrow hawk in Vienna? Did a badger cross your path on your way home at night? Or do you have swallow nests at your housing complex? We are interested in your observations in Austrian cities!The project works specifically in urban areas. With the help of Austrian city dwellers we want to get an overview of the distribution and way of life of mammals and birds in urban areas. We hope to obtain a broad data base based on sighting reports in order to better...

Wild Neighbours

Project lead: Richard Zink
Verein Entdecke und Bewahre Natur
Address: Verein Entdecke und Bewahre Natur Trautbach 22 3491 Elsarn im Strassertal Vetmeduni: Savoyenstraße 1a, 1160 Wien
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Topic: Animals, Land use
Activity: photography, counting, identifying, locating, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://wildenachbarn.at/

Are swallows nesting at your house or in your stable? Have you seen a badger in the middle of town? Or do you regularly observe a kestrel in your garden? We are interested in your observations in rural settlement areas!

Butterflies of Austria

Project lead: Ines Lemberger
Blühendes Österreich – BILLA gemeinnützige Privatstiftung
Address: Blühendes Österreich BILLA gemeinnützige Privatstiftung Schottenring 16/3. Stock c/o Haus der Philanthropie 1010 Wien
Telephone: +43-1/361 97 300
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Topic: Animals
Activity: photography, counting, identifying, locating, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://schmetterlingsapp.at/
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App for the scientific recording of Austrian butterfliesOn behalf of Blühendes Österreich - BILLA gemeinnützige Privatstiftunga, butterfly expert Peter Huemer published a report on the dramatic state of the butterfly fauna in May 2016. In Europe, their number had fallen by half since 1990 and over 50 percent of Austria’s butterflies are acutely threatened with extinction according to the Red Lists. Butterfly habitats have been massively restricted by agricultural intensification, increasing...

Breeding bird monitoring

Project lead: Norbert Teufelbauer
BirdLife Austria
Address: BirdLife Österreich Diefenbachgasse 35/1/6, A-1150 Wien
Telephone: +43 / 1 / 523 46 51
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Topic: Animals
Activity: photography, counting, identifying, locating, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.birdlife.at/vogelschutz/forschung-und-monitoring/monitoring-der-brutvoegel-oesterreichs/

Annual countsThis advanced citizen science project requires knowledge of the common native breeding bird species and participation over several years. Twice a year, the participants count all birds seen and heard at fixed points. The total of all counts is then used to calculate population trends. The available data is currently sufficient to determine meaningful trends for about 90 bird species – from 1998 onwards. Sadly, the results show how important it is to monitor our breeding bird...

Waterbird Census

Project lead: Norbert Teufelbauer
BirdLife Austria
Address: BirdLife Österreich Diefenbachgasse 35/1/6, A-1150 Wien
Telephone: +43 / 1 / 523 46 51
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Topic: Animals
Activity: photography, counting, identifying, locating, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.birdlife.at/vogelschutz/forschung-und-monitoring/wasservogelzaehlung/

Citizen Science with a long traditionThe first water bird counts in Austria took place as early as the 1950s. In the following years, the number of counts was gradually increased, and from 1970 onwards Austria-wide surveys have been carried out. This makes the waterbird census one of the longest running citizen science projects of BirdLife Austria. The censuses are carried out by volunteers between one and five times per winter (depending on the province) at defined river sections.Decline in...

Vienna Kestrel

Project lead: Petra Sumasgutner
Konrad Lorenz Research Centre University of Vienna
Address: Fischerau 11 4645 Grünau/Almtal
Telephone: +43 660 2326888
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Topic: Animals
Activity: photography, identifying, locating, observing, Offline participation
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.facebook.com/TurmfalkenprojektWien/

The kestrel is the most common raptor in the city of Vienna. Since 2010, the "Vienna Kestrel Project" has been investigating how these falcons have adapted to city life. A key component of our research is knowledge about nest locations which allow us to access broods for further investigation. The Vienna Kestrel Project was initiated by Dr. Petra Sumasgutner and Priv.-Doz. Dr. Anita Gamauf as a cooperation between the University of Vienna and the Natural History Museum (Bird Collection)...

Kremser scorpion

Project lead: Martin Scheuch
University College for Agrarian and environmental pedagogy
Address: Angermayergasse 1, 1130 Wien
Telephone: 0699/11466566
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Topic: Animals, History
Activity: identifying, observing
Participation: Open participation

Participatory exploration of the "Kremser scorpion” (Euscorpius tergestinus) with school students"Triestino scorpion" (Euscorpius tergestinus - still listed as E. carpathicus in the Red List of NÖ), which are threatened with extinction in Lower Austria, exists as an archaeozoon in Krems. This population is an isolated north-eastern outpost of the distribution area. Since 2019, sightings of these animals have been collected together with students of the BRG Krems Ringstraße 33, a UNESCO...

BeeRadar

Project lead: Julia Lanner
Institute of Zoology, BOKU University
Address: Department of Ecology Technikerstrasse 25 6020 Innsbruck
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Topic: Animals
Activity: photography, counting, identifying, locating, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.beeradar.info

We are tracing the Sculptured Resin Bee!Home of the Sculptured Resin Bee (Megachile sculpturalis, Smith 1853) is far away in Japan, China, Korea and Taiwan. In 2008, the Sculptured Resin Bee was discovered in southern France as the first introduced wild bee species in Europe. Since then, the bee has been particularly active and dispersed rapidly throughout Europe. Together, we track down the Sculptured Resin Bee in Austria. Report your observations via email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or on...

Blick ins Dickicht (A look into the undergrowth)

Project lead: Claudia Kubista und Birgit Rotter
Wienerwald Forest Management Unit; Wienerwald Biosphere Reserve; Austrian Federal Forests, Donau-Auen National Park
Telephone: (+43 2231) 63341-7173
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Topic: Animals
Activity: photography, counting, identifying, locating, taking care, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.bundesforste.at/wienerwald/projekte/blick-ins-dickicht.html

The “Blick ins Dickicht” project is dedicated to the search for the smallest native dormouse – the hazel dormouse. Until now, only very little has been known about this rare small animal. In order to learn more about its way of life and also how best protect it in working forests, evidence of hazel dormice is being sought in the Wienerwald forest and in the Donauauen national park. There are many different ways to participate here.Where are hazel dormice found?The hazel dormouse...

Crows in the Zoo (KraMobil)

Project lead: Barbara Klump
Department for Behavioral and Cognitive Biology Konrad Lorenz Research Center University of Vienna
Address: Core facility KLF for Behavioral and Cognitive Biology Universität Wien Fischerau 13 4645 Grünau im Almtal
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Topic: Animals
Activity: photography, counting, identifying, locating, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.birdscience.net/projects/kraehen-im-zoo
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"Crows in the zoo" is a Citizen Science project of the Department for Behavioral and Cognitive Biology of the University of Vienna in cooperation with the Konrad Lorenz Research Center and the Zoo Vienna. The researchers aim to find out more about the species and subspecies of crows that use the zoo area. All visitors of the Zoo Vienna are welcome to join in and contribute collecting behavioural data by using an app developed for smartphones.As typical cultural followers...

City Nature Challenges in Austria

Project lead: Tanja Lumetsberger
Universität für Weiterbildung Krems
Address: Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Str. 30, 3500 Krems
Telephone: 004327328932344
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Topic: Plants, Animals, Mushrooms
Activity: photography, identifying, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.citynaturechallenge.at

Every observation counts!The City Nature Challenge (short: CNC) is an annual nature competition between regions that takes place in spring (usually at the end of April, beginning of May) and is held simultaneously in various cities and regions worldwide. On four consecutive days, people around the world document the diversity of wild animal, plant and fungi species in their region using photos and sound recordings and share them on iNaturalist. Together with others the observations are then...

COwLEARNING

Project lead: Marianne Penker
Institute for Sustainable Economic Development BOKU University
Address: Feistmantelstraße 4 1180 Wien
Telephone: 01 47654-73115
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Topic: Food, Animals, Land use
Activity: observing
Participation: Closed participation
Project link: https://cowlearning.boku.ac.at/

Breaking the blame game: COwLEARNING for sustainable beef and dairy supply Our society faces grand challenges, such as mitigating climate change and adapting to its consequences, ensuring a healthy diet and maintaining cultural landscapes with high biodiversity. A sustainable agri-food industry addresses these challenges. In Austria, with its high share of meadows and pastures, cattle husbandry is particularly important. Several aspects of dairy and beef supply are perceived as...

ABOL-BioBlitzes

Project lead: Nikolaus Szucsich
Austrian Barcode of Life – Koordination
Address: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Burgring 7, A-1010 Wien, Österreich
Telephone: + 43 (1) 523 7302 135
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Topic: Animals
Activity: identifying, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.abol.ac.at/en/homepage_en/

The lack of sustainability in human activity is leading to the global destabilisation of our natural systems. The resulting biodiversity and climate crises require a transformation to an environmentally sustainable society. However, the expertise in the field of taxonomy required for this transformation is often only shared by a few experts. This leads to a bottleneck in biological species knowledge, where, depending on the group of organisms, often only a few citizen scientists have the...

Bumblebee Monitoring Austria

Project lead: Katharina Thierolf
BOKU University, Naturschutzbund Österreich
Address: Frauenlobstr. 24, 55118 Mainz, Deutschland
Telephone: 00491635995997
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Topic: Plants, Animals, Land use
Activity: photography, counting, identifying, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.naturbeobachtung.at/platform/mo/nabeat-t/index.do

Citizen science-based bumblebee monitoring is a pillar of the Austrian wild bee survey. Most wild bee species can only be distinguished under a microscope. The genus of bumblebees (Bombus) is an exception and can usually be distinguished at species level after a training phase in the field (see Gokcezade et al., 2010), so that not only professionals can help with the observation and recording of bumblebees. Bumblebee monitoring ties in with the already existing reporting platform...

DANUBE4all

Project lead: Helmut Habersack
BOKU University
Address: Am Brigittenauer Sporn 3
Telephone: +43 1 47654-81901, 81911
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Topic: Plants, Animals, Economy, Land use, Geology, Traffic, Water, Waste, Living together
Activity: measuring, photography, counting, identifying, locating, rating, discussing, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.danube4allproject.eu/

DANUBE4all is an EU project with the main task of developing a comprehensive action plan for the renaturation of river stretches in the Danube River Basin (DRB). To this end, a collaborative stakeholder process is being developed that actively incorporates the interests of citizens. The action plan is intended to contribute to the improvement of the ecological status, biodiversity and river connectivity of the Danube ecosystems and thus supports the EU mission OCEAN ‘Mission Healthy Oceans...

Butterfly Monitoring Austria

Project lead: Daniela Lehner
Austrian Butterfly Conservation
Address: Museumsplatz 1/Stiege 13, 1070 Wien
Telephone: 06702042347
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Topic: Animals, Land use
Activity: photography, counting, identifying, locating, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.abc-schmetterlinge.at/

Many people in Austria feel that colorful butterflies are becoming increasingly rare. Unfortunately, this is also reflected in the European Grassland Butterfly Index, compiled by Butterfly Conservation Europe from datasets across the continent. Since 1990, typical grassland butterflies have declined by 36%.Since butterfly populations naturally fluctuate from year to year, only long-term standardized monitoring can determine whether numbers are increasing or decreasing. To enable this, the...

BIOM-Garten

Project lead: Claudia Meixner
GLOBAL 2000
Address: Neustiftgasse 36, 1070 Wien
Telephone: +4318125730
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Topic: Animals
Activity: photography, counting, identifying, locating, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.artenzählen.at/

Monitoring of Amphibians and Reptiles in Austrian GardensThe BIOM-Garten project invites people of all ages to look out for amphibians and reptiles in their gardens and report their observations. This will help to fill gaps in existing monitoring and implement better conservation measures for these endangered animals.What are the aims of the project?Amphibians and reptiles are among the most endangered animals in the world. In Austria, more than half of the 21 amphibian and 15 reptile...

Octopus Intelligence

Project lead: Wolfgang Slany
Institute of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Graz University of Technology
Address: Rechbauerstr. 12 8010 Graz
Telephone: +43 6641273416
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Topic: Animals, Water
Activity: photography, locating, discussing, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.octopus-intelligence.org/project.html

Do you love diving or snorkeling? Then become part of marine research! Octopus Intelligence invites you to observe wild octopuses in the Northern Adriatic Sea and document your sightings. Every observation helps to learn more about these fascinating animals and their habitat. What are the aims of the project?The citizen science project Octopus Intelligence studies octopuses in the Northern Adriatic. The goal: to find out where octopuses occur, at what depths they live, how...