Glossary

Adminitrators:

Atlas code: alpha-numeric coding indicating breeding evidence. Different coding systems exist, and are country-speific.

Biogeographical area: a geographical region with similar characteristics in term of native species.

Casual observation: an observation by itself, that is not connected to any other observation, as in a list, for example.

EBCC: European Birds Census Council ([1]).

Observation list: a timed and structured way to enter your observation for a given date and location.

Projects:

Protocol: standardised way of collecting data. Different protocols follow different methodologies, and are country-specific.

Registered user: someone using any of our software being logged in. To log in, one must regiser first.

Species list: a relation of all species available for a given region from which you can select when entering observations.

Synoptic map: A map representing a summary (i.e. number of species, observations per year...)

Unregistered user: someone using any of our software before logging in.