Aerts, Raf (2014): Bird species recorded in an untrained observer survey (UOS) and an expert observer survey (EOS) in 2011 in SE Peru [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.840666

To evaluate the potential of community-based bird surveys in the tropics, we compared the species richness and abundances of bird functional groups that would be detected by a basic untrained observer (untrained observer survey, UOS) to a comprehensive bird species list compiled by a professional bird guide, in a coffee agroforestry landscape in the Peruvian East Andean foothills and compared functional signatures to global functional signatures of tropical bird assemblages.

The submitted data comprises the transect counts of the UOS, the comprehensive bird list, ecological data of the recorded birds and information regarding the conservation status of the recorded birds from the IUCN Red List.