USING OF NATURE OBSERVATIONS DATABASE IN 2008

In 2008, users submitted 2,245 observations to the Nature Observations Database. 1,860 of them were made in 2008 and 385 in earlier years. This map shows distribution of inserted observations in 2008.

By groups of species inserted observations divided as follow (here are only TOP 10 of species groups ):

1) birds - 903 observations,
2) mammals - 454 observations,
3) butterflies - 380 observations,
4) vascular plants - 226 observations,
5) insects (not include butterflies) - 126 observations,
6) molluscs - 27 observations,
7) reptiles - 23 observations,
8) amphibians - 22 observations,
9) fungi - 13 observations,
10) fishes - 12 observations.

Observations of species, which are under nature conservation in Estonia numbered 452. 21 of these were observations of species under protection category I , 61 under protection category II and 370 under protection category III .

71 persons entered their observations to the Nature Observations Database in 2008. 44 of them inserted three or more observations and 23 of them inserted more than 10 observations.

By county: users entered more than 100 observations to the Nature Observations Database from six counties: Harju (645), Põlva (368), Rapla (342), Lääne (164), Pärnu (127) and Järva (116). From eight counties users inserted more than 10 and less than 100 observations. No observations were received from Hiiu county users in 2008.

Observations submitted to the database were more frequent in spring and summer. The biggest number of inputs was in May (469), followed by April (460), March (390), July (272) and June (221) (see the next graph).