BELGIUM · SPECIES · SPECIES
Vogelwaarnemingen
What this layer shows
Bird records shared with GBIF under an open licence (CC0 or CC BY), drawn for the current view. It is not an inventory: where cover is dense the map shows at most three hundred records per view and therefore a sample, and empty space means that nobody looked or that the record was not shared under a freely reusable licence. Two things shape this picture strongly: far less open data is published in Wallonia than in Flanders, and the largest Flemish dataset supplies positions blurred to a 5 by 5 kilometre grid square, so those records are drawn as a circle of that radius rather than a dot.
Not in the app's radius search: Observation records, not designations: an absence here is not evidence
Publisher and licence
GBIF.org · occurrence records, each under its own CC0 or CC-BY licence; see the record for its dataset
GBIF.org — occurrence records, each under its own CC0 or CC-BY licence; see the record for its dataset
Where the data comes from
GBIF · api.gbif.org
Merestone asks this service live for the area on screen. Nothing is copied or stored beyond a short cache.
Facts shown for each feature
Dataset · Licence · Accuracy (m)
In these presets
Natura 2000
The Natura 2000 network of the three Regions: the Walloon and Brussels sites, and the Flemish habitat- en vogelrichtlijngebieden. This is the free set, the one the map opens with everywhere in Belgium.
Desk study
What a consultancy or a notary checks first in Flanders: SBZ-H and SBZ-V with their sub-sites, VEN and IVON, Ramsar, nature reserves and natuurbeheerplannen, land-use designation and overdrukken from DSI, rights of pre-emption, protected heritage and archaeology, flood-prone land, signaalgebieden and drinking water protection zones. The rest of water, soil, land use and heritage sits in a set of its own.