Glossary

Atlas code:

alpha-numeric coding indicating breeding evidence. Different coding systems exist, and are country-specific. Look to your local guideline how to use it.

Basic list:

list in which only the species compulsoy for the protocol are counted. See protocols for more information.

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.

Complete list:

list in which all species detected are identified and recorded.

EBCC:

European Birds Census Council (www.ebcc.info).

Extended list:

list in which all compulsory species for the protocol are counted along with other related species. See protocols for more information.

Interface:

in this case, the way the information is shown to the user through a web site (Web interface) or a phone application (Mobile interface).

Locality:

physical place where a survey takes place. It may represent a transect, a point or a polygon, depending on the stydy.

Observation list:

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

Partial list:

A list in which not all species detected are recorded.

Place:

A group of localities. Sometimes it may be equivalent to a locality, for example, if the study only contains one transect per square. On the contrary, in studies when a square cotains several point counts, each point count corresponds to a locality and the square with all the points correspond to a place.

Protocol:

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

Rarity Comittee:

an independent group of ornithologists evaluating if exceptional observations could be considered for scientific studies. See Rarity Committees in Europe at www.aerc.eu.

Registered user:

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

Restricted list:

A list in which only the compulsory species for the specified survey are counted. See protocols for more information.

Shapefile:

Format to store, import and export geometrical data (.shp). It corresponds to each layer of a GIS project. Elements in the shapefile (oints, vectors and polygons) can be visualised and mdified with GIS software.

Species list:

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

Supersite

A survey area that contains many localities and needs to be defied beforehand.

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.