Birds in domestic gardens : a study on the feasibility of modelling their presence

This study explores the feasibility of modelling the presence of birds in domestic gardens with a sufficiently high degree of accuracy to be of use for investigating the added predictive value of bird presence in residential environments, in addition to that of greenery in those environments, for the well-being of the residents. On the one hand, this feasibility concerns the (preferably nationally) available data on environmental characteristics with predictive value for bird presence. On the other hand, it concerns the availability of sufficient data on actual bird presence to calibrate (and preferably validate) such a model. In particular, this latter concern is an issue which is explored in this report.