Iberian Camera Trap Project

Volunteering hours - confirmation for school assignment, Duke of Edinburgh’s Award etc.

Go to the "Education" section.

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Hashtags - how they work?

Hashtags can be used to mark interesting behaviour in photos or good image examples of a species. These photos can be searched by the used “keywords” anytime later. Please, make sure to only hashtag animal species you are confident of and present in the photo; otherwise, the search results will give us false results and mislead other volunteers. Prefer existing hashtags from the suggestion list - it pops up after typing # symbol and first letters of the keyword. If the keyword doesn’t appear in the suggestion list, don’t forget to use underscore “_” instead of space between words. Otherwise, the distance between the words will break your hashtag. To search for images using hashtags, either click on a hashtag anywhere on the Talk page or type/copy&paste the hashtag into the search box (at the top of the Talk page) - don’t forget to include the # symbol.
There are three important hashtags in addition to those used to refer to animal species (including us! ):

• #tagged (for individuals who carry a tag/band/ring, etc.)
• #predation (for photos where you can see some predatory behaviour or its consequences)
• #unhealthy (sick-looking, for example, skinny, with cutaneous injuries or lesions, etc.) (sick-looking, for example, skinny, with cutaneous injuries or lesions, etc.)
  Details on the first two can be found here.

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Not sure what species it is

There are quite a few circumstances that can make your task of classification difficult. Nighttime images are more difficult than daytime images. This is especially true for some species, such as cervids (red deer and fallow deer) and leporids (rabbits and hares). The color and type of coat (details in the FIELD GUIDE) that usually helps you differentiate them, tends to become useless in the nighttime images. Some other times, the image is not of enough quality (e.g. fuzzy), or the animal is too far, too close, or behind a visual obstacle. Just make it the best you can do. In these cases, the type of tag you may want to mark is one of: Cervid, Leporid, Unrecognizable.

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That species is not among the tags

Actually, you have a tag for that, it is Other species.

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I can see only a part of the animal

Okay, this happens quite often when the animal wants to scratch on that beautiful thing the humans kindly put in here (or want to smell it). Usually, in these cases, you'll have to decide between two options: 1) you’re not at all sure what it is (choose Unrecognizable), 2) you can say it's a cervid, but not if it's a red or fallow deer (choose cervid).

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I have a question that I cannot solve either with the tutorial, or with the FIELD GUIDE, or with this section

A the end of your classification task you will see the Talk button. By pressing it you will be able to send us your question that we will answer as soon as possible.

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I can see more than 1 animal species

Sometimes you can see more than one animal species in the same photo. In such cases, please, choose both categories - first select one of them (e.f., a cow), count all the animals and click on "Identify", then select the other species (e.f., red deer) and click on "Identify". Then check out the bottom part of the image - you should see blue labels with both identified categories displayed there. If you accidentally chose the wrong category, you can remove it by clicking on the tiny cross on the blue label before finishing the classification by "Done" /" Done&Talk".

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The image is bad/too dark, and there's no animal

If you cannot see any part or outline of an animal, select the "No animal" category.

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What are the poles good for?

You've probably noticed that sometimes there's only one pole, and other times there are five (if you stick with us, you'll often see no poles in future subject sets). We created various settings to evaluate if and how they affect the probability of detecting the species. It is part of our study design. When you see a single pole, it is with a lure. When you see five of them, it is to calculate the probability of detection based on the distance from the camera. Even when there is no lure, poles may bring an animal that wants to scratch near them...