Raptor Persecution Incidents
Buse Küçükçoban, Defne Bayrak
26/06/2021
Introduction of data & problem statement
We got our data from the RSPB open data source site.
Source
Our data includes confirmed incidents of raptors that took place in the UK. The dataset consists of 1297 rows and 13 columns.
## 'data.frame': 1297 obs. of 13 variables:
## $ ï..OBJECTID : int 4399 4400 4401 4402 4403 4404 4405 4406 4407 4408 ...
## $ RSPB_Reference: int 88508 99939 93075 95445 99099 98890 90310 93840 94264 99068 ...
## $ County : chr "ABERDEENSHIRE" "NORTH YORKSHIRE" "DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY" "ANGUS" ...
## $ Incident_Type : chr "Poisoning" "Shooting" "Nest Destruction" "Illegal Pole/Spring Trapping" ...
## $ Month : chr "May" "July" "May" "February" ...
## $ Year : int 2007 2018 2010 2012 2016 2016 2008 2010 2011 2016 ...
## $ Grid_Square : chr "NJ72" "SE05" "NS80" "NO48" ...
## $ Details : chr "Species involved: Peregrine falcon x 2; poison bait (pigeon) x 1. Tested positive for: Carbofuran." "Species involved: Red kite x 1." "Species involved: Peregrine falcon nest." "Species involved: Buzzard x 1." ...
## $ More_Info_Here: chr "No Link" "https://northyorkshire.police.uk/news/appeal-for-information-after-red-kite-found-dead-in-the-yorkshire-dales/" "No Link" "No Link" ...
## $ Country : chr "SCOTLAND" "ENGLAND" "SCOTLAND" "SCOTLAND" ...
## $ GlobalID : chr "{434F45F6-1323-4254-8E28-41756CD62F67}" "{F78F8C70-122E-4E13-9904-0B5262AFF5C9}" "{33FDF6A7-99EF-4369-A396-65DAB8EB3EF3}" "{F4C9B2E8-07D1-45E7-B526-E86E5DC143C3}" ...
## $ SHAPE_Length : num 73995 67992 70241 73275 68237 ...
## $ SHAPE_Area : num 3.42e+08 2.89e+08 3.08e+08 3.36e+08 2.91e+08 ...
Actions taken
- We import the libraries we will use
library(“tidyverse”) library(“ggplot2”) library(“dplyr”) library(“gapminder”) library(“tm”) library(“tmap”)
- We have shown the bird species in the detail column in a separate column, hiding the columns we do not need.
And our final data is:
## ObjectId County Incident_Type Month Year
## 1 4399 ABERDEENSHIRE Poisoning May 2007
## 2 4400 NORTH YORKSHIRE Shooting July 2018
## 3 4401 DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY Nest Destruction May 2010
## 4 4402 ANGUS Illegal Pole/Spring Trapping February 2012
## 5 4403 DOWN Shooting April 2016
## Grid_Square Country SHAPE_Length SHAPE_Area Species
## 1 NJ72 SCOTLAND 73994.72 342200534 Peregrinefalcon
## 2 SE05 ENGLAND 67992.46 288935333 Redkite
## 3 NS80 SCOTLAND 70241.35 308364890 Peregrinefalconnest
## 4 NO48 SCOTLAND 73275.49 335580512 Buzzard
## 5 J02 NORTHERN IRELAND 68237.03 291017712 Sparrowhawk
Raptor most exposed to incidents
- Buzzards, other birds of prey and red kites are among the most exposed creatures.
## Reading layer `NUTS_Level_2_(January_2018)_Boundaries' from data source
## `C:\Users\asus\Desktop\final_docs-busekcoban\shp\NUTS_Level_2_(January_2018)_Boundaries.shp'
## using driver `ESRI Shapefile'
## Simple feature collection with 41 features and 9 fields
## Geometry type: MULTIPOLYGON
## Dimension: XY
## Bounding box: xmin: -70.2116 ymin: 5337.901 xmax: 655644.8 ymax: 1220302
## Projected CRS: OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
## Coordinate Reference System:
## User input: EPSG:4326
## wkt:
## GEOGCRS["WGS 84",
## DATUM["World Geodetic System 1984",
## ELLIPSOID["WGS 84",6378137,298.257223563,
## LENGTHUNIT["metre",1]]],
## PRIMEM["Greenwich",0,
## ANGLEUNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433]],
## CS[ellipsoidal,2],
## AXIS["geodetic latitude (Lat)",north,
## ORDER[1],
## ANGLEUNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433]],
## AXIS["geodetic longitude (Lon)",east,
## ORDER[2],
## ANGLEUNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433]],
## USAGE[
## SCOPE["Horizontal component of 3D system."],
## AREA["World."],
## BBOX[-90,-180,90,180]],
## ID["EPSG",4326]]
