Infrastructure and the ethnographic-cartographic production of urban bird species richness

The qualitative bio-geographies of human geographers and the quantitative mappings of biogeographers share a goal: how to understand living with non-human life. Yet they rarely bridge the conceptual and methodological gap between them. This paper theorizes how the concept of infrastructure can bridge this ethnographic-cartographic divide. Infrastructure is not just an inanimate shell. It is also a system of relation, a dynamic patterning of socionatural form emerging out of the experiences and affective moments of its constituents. As a proof of concept, we quantified and compared urban bird species richness and frequency for Tallahassee, Florida over a 17-year period (2000–2017) for two co-occurring observational infrastructures, eBird and a wildlife rehabilitation center that serves the city. Species common to both infrastructures comprised 94% of all eBird observations and 99% of all rehab records. Their differences reflected contrasts in how the motivations for experiencing birds in..., The raw wildlife rehabilitation data set was obtained from St Francis Wildlife Association and Rehabilitation Center in Quincy, Florida. These data consisted of the records of birds brought in for rehabilitation over the period 2000–2017. These data were cleaned up to include only complete records. Addresses for each record are associated with the individual or entity that brought the birds in for rehab. These were geocoded to produce a distribution of point locations for these rehab events. eBird data was obtained from the online website. These were filtered to include only those observations that were part of completed checklists. , QGIS or ESRI ArcGIS products, ## Infrastructure and the ethnographic-cartographic production of urban bird species richness

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These are the data sets used in the research article Infrastructure and the ethnographic-cartographic production of urban bird species richness published in Environment and Planning F (Sage Publishers). There are two data sets, one consists of the records of birds brought into a wildlife rehabilitation center and the other is eBird records for the same geographic area. These data were geocoded and analyzed to ascertain their differences in bird relative percent frequency and species richness across the study and through time. For further information consult the publication or contact the author, J. Anthony Stallins ([e-mail]).

Stallins JA, Lally N, Luther E, 2023. Infrastructure and the ethnographic-cartographic production of urban bird species richness. Environment and Planning F.

## Description of the data

Shared\_species\_only.csv
This data set lists bird species common t...