Great British Bee Count 2016 - Stage 2 (records verified from photo)
Friends of the Earth
Description
This dataset contains the verified records from the Great British Bee Count 2015. From 19 May - 30 June 2016 amateur bee spotters from all over the UK joined in to submit their bee sightings. Over 14,000 photographs were gathered and these have been used by entamologists to verify individual records.
Geographic Description
Whole of UK.
Purpose
The Great British Bee Count aims to raise awareness around the plight of bees and encourage people all over the UK to provide habitats for bees to thrive. Amateur bee spotters reported bee sightings to category and species level. Photos were collected for this count for verification purposes. Please note: We are always looking for volunteers to assist with verification of records in order to grow this dataset. Please email info@foe.co.uk to receive information on how to be involved.
Data quality
Good - Species determined from photograph. Records where the photograph was unclear or instances where a confident identification could not be made have not been uploaded to this dataset.
Methods
Data was gathered via the Great British Bee Count app. This app is available for both iOS and Android mobile devices. Once all the data was gathered a set of rules were applied to the data in a cleansing exercise - this eliminated duplicates, non-UK records and suspicious records. Over 14,000 photographs were submitted in order to allow for independent verification.
Citation
Friends of the Earth ([Insert download year]). Great British Bee Count 2016 - Stage 2 (records verified from photo). Occurrence dataset on the NBN Atlas
Rights
CC-BY
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Digitised records
Looking up... the number of records that can be accessed through the NBN Atlas. This resource was last checked for updated data on 07 Feb 2023. The most recent data was published on 07 Feb 2023.
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