Research

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The project just started so we don’t have any results to share yet. Get back to transcribing!

But while you are here, we have some London bird facts for you to enjoy. 

The oldest record in GiGL's [species database](http://www.gigl.org.uk/species-data/) is a cuckoo recorded by [John Lubbock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lubbock,_1st_Baron_Avebury) in 1848.
![cuckoo_male_1200x675.jpg](https://panoptes-uploads.zooniverse.org/production/project_attached_image/149912cb-2420-4afb-8123-864653183482.jpeg)
**Cuckoo**

According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lubbock,_1st_Baron_Avebury), John Lubbock lived in the same village as [Charles Darwin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin), whose goldfinch and siskin recorded in 1887 are some of the oldest records in GiGL's database. 
![goldfinch_adult_1200x675.jpg](https://panoptes-uploads.zooniverse.org/production/project_attached_image/b509ed8a-ec21-41bb-a2d2-5390bb28c877.jpeg)
**Goldfinch**
![siskin_male_1200x675.jpg](https://panoptes-uploads.zooniverse.org/production/project_attached_image/115c8e92-b88a-4ef1-a336-85404d4b4813.jpeg)
**Siskin**

GiGL currently holds a whopping **1,105,585** bird records for London. 
However, there are only 5,155 bird records from the years 1970-1979.
The team at GiGL hopes that the valuable species records Zooniverse users are helping to transcribe will improve our knowledge of the birds in London during the 1900s.


Results

Team

Help recover 20th century bird observations collected by the London Natural History Society 

London Bird Records

Record cards are organised by year, then species and then vice county. The cards detail the record location, date, abundance, the observer and additional notes.