Skeletal trait measurements for thousands of bird species
Brian C. Weeks, Zhizhuo Zhou, Charlotte M. Probst, Jacob S. Berv, Bruce K. O'Brien, Brett W. Benz, Heather R. Skeen, Mark Ziebell, Louise Bodt, David F. Fouhey
The paper uses computer vision to measure skeletal traits in bird species, creating a dataset of 12 skeletal elements from 14,419 individuals across 2,057 species, and imputes missing data using phylogenetic relationships.
Scientific Data · May 28, 2025Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology