USING OF NATURE OBSERVATIONS DATABASE IN 2019

In 2019, users submitted 9,028 observations to the Nature Observations Database. In addition there were over 60000 mammals observations which came from monitoring data. Next statistics is for only these 9,028 observations. Next map shows distribution of inserted observations in 2019.

By groups of species inserted observations divided as follow (here are only TOP 10 of species groups):
1) birds - 3166 observations,
2) vascular plants - 2153 observations,
3) mammals - 1848 observations,
4) amphibians - 680 observations,
5) butterflies/moths - 575 observations,
6) other insects except butterflied and moths - 165 observations;
7) fungi - 128 observations,
8) reptiles - 104 observations,
9) fishes - 55 observations,
10) molluscs - 51 observations.

The most popular species which observations were entered were: Tetrao urogallus - 650 observations, Rana arvalis - 283 observations, Tetrastes bonasia - 235 observations, Turdus viscivorus - 231 observations, Capreolus capreolus - 222 observations, Talpa europaea - 197 observations, Rana temporaria - 171 observations, Tetrao tetrix - 154 observations, Dryocopus martius - 140 observations and Grus grus - 138 observations.
Summary observations of 1153 species were entered during the year.

Observations of species, which are under nature conservation in Estonia, were entered 4271 : 144 of these were observations of species under protection category I, 1175 under protection category II and 2952 under protection category III.

311 persons entered their observations to the Nature Observations Database in 2019. 198 of them inserted three or more observations, 75 of them inserted more than 10 observations and 18 of them inserted more than 100 observations. One person entered even more than 1000 observations.

By county: first was Tartu (1437). Followed Harju (1422) and Pärnu (939).

Observations submitted to the database were more frequent in February (2198 observations). Next was May (1455 observations).