animals

  • ornitho.at

    ornitho.at
    • BirdLife Austria
    • Norbert Teufelbauer
    • BirdLife Österreich Diefenbachgasse 35/1/6, A-1150 Wien
    • +43 / 1 / 523 46 51
    • Topic: Animals
    • https://www.ornitho.at/
    • https://apps.apple.com/at/app/naturalist/id1175280268
    • https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.biolovision.naturalist&hl=de
    • Location: Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    Important groundwork for bird protectionThe association BirdLife Austria has been researching and protecting the native avifauna for over 50 years. Citizen science has always been an essential basis of this work, as BirdLife's expertise is based on decades of collecting bird records. In the past, observations were recorded on paper slips, today www.ornitho.at is a modern and simple way to report bird observations.Many functionalitiesWith the platform ornitho.at you can not only report...

  • Breeding bird monitoring

    Breeding bird monitoring
    • BirdLife Austria
    • Norbert Teufelbauer
    • BirdLife Österreich Diefenbachgasse 35/1/6, A-1150 Wien
    • +43 / 1 / 523 46 51
    • Topic: Animals
    • https://www.birdlife.at/vogelschutz/forschung-und-monitoring/monitoring-der-brutvoegel-oesterreichs/
    • Activity: photography, counting, identifying, locating, observing
    • Location: Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    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

    Waterbird Census
    • BirdLife Austria
    • Norbert Teufelbauer
    • BirdLife Österreich Diefenbachgasse 35/1/6, A-1150 Wien
    • +43 / 1 / 523 46 51
    • Topic: Animals
    • https://www.birdlife.at/vogelschutz/forschung-und-monitoring/wasservogelzaehlung/
    • Activity: photography, counting, identifying, locating, observing
    • Location: Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    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...

  • "Stunde der Wintervögel" - An hour for winter birds

    "Stunde der Wintervögel" - An hour for winter birds
    • BirdLife Austria
    • Lisa Lugerbauer
    • BirdLife Österreich Diefenbachgasse 35/1/6, A-1150 Wien
    • (+43) 1 / 5234651
    • Topic: Animals
    • https://www.birdlife.at/page/stunde-der-wintervoegel
    • Activity: measuring, identifying, locating, observing, Offline participation
    • Location: Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    The Austrian wide winter bird count of BirdLife AustriaEvery year, the bird conservation organisation BirdLife Austria hosts the "Hour of Winter Birds", the Austrian winter bird count. All nature lovers are invited to count birds for one hour on the days around January 6th. All participants actively contribute to bird research with their personal count results.Anyone can take part even without much prior knowledge in bird identification. The campaign focuses on the most common and...

  • Bug us with your ticks!

    Bug us with your ticks!
    • AGES - Österreichische Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit
    • Anna-Margarita Schötta
    • Währinger Straße 25a, 1090 Wien
    • +43 (0)5 0555-37226
    • Topic: Animals, Health
    • https://www.ages.at/mensch/krankheit/infos-zu-zecken-krankheiten#c28475
    • Activity: locating, observing, Offline participation
    • Location: Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    For our national tick monitoring programme, we invite you to provide us with ticks. Your samples will help us analyse which tick species appear when and where in Austria. Moreover, ticks will also be investigated for the presence of pathogens.What are the aims of the project?The goal of our national tick monitoring programme is to obtain data regarding tick species in Austria, their occurrence, and the pathogens they may carry. The objective is to sample ticks from a wide variety...

  • ABOL-BioBlitzes

    ABOL-BioBlitzes
    • Austrian Barcode of Life – Koordination
    • Nikolaus Szucsich
    • Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Burgring 7, A-1010 Wien, Österreich
    • + 43 (1) 523 7302 135
    • Topic: Animals
    • https://www.abol.ac.at/en/homepage_en/
    • Activity: identifying, observing
    • Location: Austria, a local area
    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...

  • Blick ins Dickicht (A look into the undergrowth)

    Blick ins Dickicht (A look into the undergrowth)
    • Wienerwald Forest Management Unit; Wienerwald Biosphere Reserve; Austrian Federal Forests, Donau-Auen National Park
    • Claudia Kubista und Birgit Rotter
    • (+43 2231) 63341-7173
    • Topic: Animals
    • https://www.bundesforste.at/wienerwald/projekte/blick-ins-dickicht.html
    • Activity: photography, counting, identifying, locating, taking care, observing
    • Location: Lower Austria, Vienna
    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...

  • Mosquito Alert

    Mosquito Alert
    • AGES - Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety
    • Karin Bakran-Lebl
    • Währingerstraße 25a, 1090 Wien
    • + 43 50 555-37234
    • Topic: Animals, Health
    • https://www.mosquitoalert.com/en/
    • Activity: photography, identifying, locating, observing
    • https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mosquito-alert/id890635644
    • https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ceab.movelab.tigatrapp
    • Location: Europe, Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    Mosquito Alert is a citizen science project that allows tiger mosquitoes and other mosquitoes to be easily reported using a free app. Tiger mosquitoes are always smaller than a 1-cent coin, have a single white line on the back of the head and thoraxand white stripes on the body and legs. The submitted photos are examined by national and international experts and the finds are then displayed anonymously on a publicly accessible map.Tiger mosquitoes are non-native mosquitoes...

  • StadtWildTiere Vienna ("UrbanWildAnimals")

    StadtWildTiere Vienna ("UrbanWildAnimals")
    • Verein Entdecke und Bewahre Natur
    • Richard Zink
    • Verein Entdecke und Bewahre Natur Trautbach 22 3491 Elsarn im Strassertal Vetmeduni Vienna: Savoyenstraße 1a, 1160 Wien
    • Topic: Animals, Land use
    • https://stadtwildtiere.at/
    • Activity: photography, counting, locating, observing
    • https://apps.apple.com/at/app/wildtiere/id1160726295#?platform=iphone
    • https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wildtiere.app&hl=en&gl=US
    • Location: Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    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...

  • Herpetofauna

    Herpetofauna
    • Herpetologische Sammlung Naturhistorisches Museum
    • Silke Schweiger
    • Burgring 7, 1010 Wien
    • Topic: Animals
    • https://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/forschung/1_zoologie_wirbeltiere/herpetologische_sammlung/mitmachen/amphibien_und_reptilien_in_oesterreich_unter_beobachtung
    • Activity: photography, counting, identifying, locating
    • Location: Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    Amphibians and reptiles under observation in AustriaImportance and evaluability of databases increase with the extent, the precision and the currency of the data stored.The Natural History Museum Vienna, one of the largest non-university research institutions in Austria, houses more than 30 million objects from the fields of biology, earth sciences and human sciences. Since 1982, the Amphibian and Reptile Collection has also been collecting data on the historical and recent...

  • Wild Neighbours

    Wild Neighbours
    • Verein Entdecke und Bewahre Natur
    • Richard Zink
    • Verein Entdecke und Bewahre Natur Trautbach 22 3491 Elsarn im Strassertal Vetmeduni: Savoyenstraße 1a, 1160 Wien
    • Topic: Animals, Land use
    • https://wildenachbarn.at/
    • Activity: photography, counting, identifying, locating, observing
    • Location: Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    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!

  • Roadkill

    Roadkill
    • Institute of Zoology, BOKU University
    • With this project you can participate in a scientific project with the aim to reduce roadkill. In this project we investigate, which animals are killed on roads and which factors are influencing roadkills. Your data allows us to identify roadkill hotspots. Our vision is to mitigate those hotspots in cooperation with local authorities.
    • Florian Heigl
    • Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33 1180 Wien
    • Topic: Animals, Land use, Traffic
    • https://roadkill.at/en/
    • https://www.citizen-science.at/blog/teamblog/projekt-roadkill
    • Activity: photography, counting, identifying, locating, discussing
    • https://apps.apple.com/us/app/roadkill-spotteron/id1007563102
    • https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotteron.roadkill
    • Location: Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna
    In this citizen science project of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, we would like to create an overview of where animals are roadkilled and what reasons there might be for this.In the Roadkill project, we would like to cooperate with you in many ways, because citizen science means for us an active cooperation between research and society, in which everyone can contribute expertise and is highly valued. The collaboration is on a voluntary basis and can therefore...

  • Octopus Intelligence

    Octopus Intelligence
    • Institute of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Graz University of Technology
    • Wolfgang Slany
    • Rechbauerstr. 12 8010 Graz
    • +43 6641273416
    • Topic: Animals, Water
    • https://www.octopus-intelligence.org/project.html
    • Activity: photography, locating, discussing, observing
    • Location: Europe, a local area
    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...

  • Frog in a drop of water

    Frog in a drop of water
    • University of Innsbruck, Institute of Zoology
    • Corinna Wallinger
    • Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck
    • +43 512 507 51888
    • Topic: Animals, Land use, Water
    • https://www.uibk.ac.at/projects/frosch-im-wassertropfen/
    • Activity: photography, taking care, observing, experimenting
    • Location: Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    State-of-the-art DNA technology and citizen science - "Frog in a drop of water" unleashes new prospects for amphibian researchDetective work for amphibian protection - for the first time, amphibian screening is being carried out throughout Austria by detecting their DNA traces in water - and everyone can take part. Amphibians - including frogs, toads, toads, salamanders and newts - are strictly protected in Austria. Nevertheless, populations are continuously and in some cases dramatically...

  • UrbanBEE

    UrbanBEE
    • Logo URBANBee
    • University Vienna & AGES
    • Projektleitung: Petra Sumasgutner
    • UBB, Djerassiplatz 1, 1030 Wien
    • Petra Sumasgutner
    • UBB, Djerassiplatz 1, 1030 Wien
    • Topic: Animals, Living together
    • https://www.myurbanbee.com/vienna
    • Activity: photography, counting, identifying, taking care, observing
    • Universität Vienna & AGES
    • Location: Vienna
    Connecting People, Biodiversity and Cities UrbanBEE is an international study of wild bees in cities. Two hundred volunteers in Vienna will host bee hotels and send weekly photos of the occupation, helping the project unravel the dynamics of wild bees in urban ecosystems. What are the aims of the project? UrbanBEE is an international research project that aims to find out more about wild bees and...

  • Citizen Science Am Heidjöchl

    Citizen Science Am Heidjöchl
    • City of Vienna - District planning and zoning
    • Andreas Baur
    • Rathausstraße 14-16, 1010 Wien
    • +43676811888596
    • Topic: Plants, Animals, Land use, Living together
    • https://mitgestalten.wien.gv.at/de-DE/projects/citizen-science-am-heidjochl
    • Activity: photography, locating, observing
    • Location: Vienna, a local area
    Surveying and experiencing biodiversity togetherOn the site of the future "Am Heidjöchl" district, the City of Vienna is working with experts and citizens to survey biodiversity over the course of a whole year. These findings will be incorporated into the design of the new district.What are the aims of the project?The fundamental planning objective of the project is to ensure that biodiversity in the new “Am Heidjöchl” district is higher than it is today in the area. In order to...

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