BirdLab is a free game participatory science whose purpose is to validate scientific hypotheses through to the players.
The principle for 5 minutes, you will reproduce your fingers arrivals and departures of the birds in two real feeders you have installed side by side in your garden, balcony or terrace.
BirdLab is playful application of scientific protocol established by researchers from the Natural History Museum and AgroParisTech.
How to play and help science?
1- Build two identical feeders for your garden, terrace or balcony by following our tutorials in the application.
2. Learn to recognize 26 species of the most common birds with the drive quiz (novice, amateur or confirmed).
Fact sheets allow you to learn more about the species you observe.
3- Start the game and identify live for 5 minutes the birds coming to rest on your two feeders.
The data you collect is valuable and useful: they are sent to the Museum and you actually help science to better understand the behavior of birds.
4- BirdLab plays winter, from mid-November to late March.
Share with your friends your stats and recruit new players.
The more you play and the more you help science.
Your observations are used to study how different species of birds avoid or combine the feeders. More observational data will be many more researchers will advance knowledge.
BirdLab is a free application of participatory science developed by the Vigie-Nature team, a program of the National Museum of Natural History, and the studio Small Bang.
Thank you note the app and share with your friends to help scientists.