faims / bird-banding

Avian ecology at Macquarie University - banding of birds, New South Wales

About this module:

This module was created for the Griffith Ecology Lab, a research group based at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. The module has been designed to document the evolution of behaviour, physiology, and life-history variation across bird species in the rural New South Wales, Australia. Specifically the module monitors the physical condition of individual birds and it evolution over time.

Authorship

This module was co-developed by Simon C. Griffith at Macquarie University and Adela Sobotkova and Petra Janouchova at the FAIMS Project, Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University.

Funding:

Development of this module was funded by MQ Strategic Infrastructure Scheme 20110089 for FAIMS development in 2016 and the Research Attraction and Acceleration Program (RAAP) NSW Department of Industry 16805/00 aimed to support innovation and investment in the New South Wales in 2016 and 2017.

Date of release:

June 2016

FAIMS Mobile version

FAIMS v2.2 (Android 5+)

Licence

This module is licensed under an international Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Licence (CC BY 4.0).

Access:

This module is part of the FAIMS Demo library on our publicly accessible Demo server (http://demo.fedarch.org/).

This module contains the following FAIMS features:

• coordinates from internal GPS
• validated fields with user observations
• attribute-level timestamps
• photo capture from device camera
• controlled vocabularies

This module can be used with no or minor modification for:

• longitudinal study (bird observations over time, recording changes over time)
• mapping of individual bird behaviour

Contact info:

For more details about the Griffith Ecology Lab please visit https://griffithecology.com/. If you have any questions about the longitudinal monitoring of Bird nesting in NSW, please contact [email protected].

If you have any questions about the module, please contact the FAIMS team at [email protected] and we will get back to you within one business day.

bird-banding's Issues

Main tab

We need to make sure that the tab scrolling is enabled, such that it's usable on a nexus 6 in landscape mode.

student notes

Turn on internal GPS by default.

New field, under ID Pit Tag
Colour band (Annotation, no certainty):

• Picture gallery: Red, Green, Black, Dark Blue, Light Blue, Orange, Yellow, Purple, White, Brown, Other

ID Pit Tag:

• Show a warning if there are more than 15 characters entered on blur.

Validation:

• Check for first page validation when the two other tabs entered. For Bird.

Add new checkbox
Capture Status (annotation, no certainty):

• Recaptured

How Caught:

• Add option, Aviary, other

For band number,
Add vocab dropdown (as populated from main tab) plus measure text area.
Vocab dropdown: 026, 027, 037

On spreadsheet, output $1$2, such that the vocab is combined with bandnumber. No space.
Band number measure, show warning on blur if not 5 numeric digits. Make sure band number is bound numeric.

On Tab Bird Info. Entities should be ordered:

• Band Number
• Bird Species
• Location Name
• GPS stuff
• Nest ID
• Chick ID
• Age
• Sex
• How Caught
• Bill Colour
• Timestamp
• Author

Comments Tab:

Add:
Sample: (Checkbox, appendCharacterString="; ", annotation, no certainty)

• Blood
• Feather
• Sperm

Client notes

• Write location name field into localsettings.
• Add species dropdown to main, add to localsettings. Set species in bird tab.
• Change location name into a vocab both on main tab and on bird tab
• Radio button: Age, Sex, How Caught
• Add a bill colour hierarchical photogallery
  • Bird Species (from species. Can we auto-click this?)
  • N colours per. [ Colour 1..4 ]

Formatstrings

We need to make sure we're using format strings on all attributes, of the "I can't believe it's not a spreadsheet" variety, such that the export is not filled with 1's on null with 1.0 certainty.