An application for wild life enthusiasts providing easy access to every kind of wild life database and facility to update it. It allows user to identify a specie after providing some information in the form of photograph, chirp or observations. It gives the provision of developing a social network and other related facilities.

1. WILD WIKI
Project Problem statement: To design a device for wild life enthusiasts providing easy access to every kind
of wild life database and facility to update it. It should also give the provision of developing a social
network and other related facilities.

3. Stand Alone device
(attachable to other supporting devices –
binoculars, camera, phones, laptops, telescope)
Its very flexible and easy to get desired
views and pictures for the search.
But it adds up to one more utility that you have
to carry while exploring wild.
Application
An application can be installed on any phone device
which has a facility of camera.
Or it can also be installed on camera if it supports
the software.
It cannot be used with every other device like
Binoculars.

4. OR
Pre-installed
Dedicated Wild-Wiki Device
Application setup

5. Hobbies- Play station games, golf, thrill joy rides.
Plays traditional Indian Flute.
Parents- some industrialist.
Profession- Contributor to National Geography,
Freelance Photographer, Invests in share-market.
Doesn’t like the concept of pets
Vegetarian
Member of organizations- Ban Zoos, Go vegetarian,
Anti-forest encroachment.
Rides a bicycle to everywhere
Uses eco-friendly products.
Blogs everyday.

6. USER
STUDY
Study was basically focused on understand the process
of searching information from the wild life database.
There are two ways
1) To match the details and find the bird/ animal
2) To find the bird family and then match the details to
get the perfect match.
Following are the details they look for
-size, beak, region, calls, posture, tail, colors, activity,
plumage, season and time of day.
It also help me gain following information-
1) Types of information displayed about the species
2) Needs for easy search, and a handy option for the
information database.
3) Attachable to other devices
4) Personal database and tracking of activities needed.
Prof.ShobhaMadan
Prof.TVPrabhakar

7. Searchyourwildlife
speciewithease
Getthelatestupdate
aboutnews,discoveries,
eventsandnewsinthe
wildlifeworld.
Createandmaintain
yoursocialnetworkand
profiles
Buildyourpersonal
database.
PHONE >> GPS, TODO, Other utilities

8. The search for a particular specie starts after we have
certain information/observations to start with.
These observation can be in three forms.
1) Picture
The picture is used for reference since the picture
search/matching is not available.
2) Recorded Sounds
along with the possible description
of the calling of bird is used to
for search.
3) Other data collected from observations
-Plumage, Size, Season, Time of day, beak, region,
posture, tail, etc.
4) Search by video is difficult but the possibilities can
be explored

9. Search Results
(links)
Catalogue s
Manual Search
Word/phrase search
i SEARCH
Specie
Search
Photo
Recorded
sound
Observation fill
General fill
Detail fill
Time, season
Location, size
Beak details
Sighting, tail
Plumage, posture
Food, nesting
Family specific fill
Time, season
Location, size
Beak details
Sighting, tail
Plumage, posture
Food, nesting
Details fill
Birds at
location
Specific options
For smart search
Update Personal
database
Report discovery
Share on social
network
Write blogs

10. Quick launch
Picture
Browse &
upload
Use for
reference
Recorded sound
Browse &
upload
Match
frequency &
wavelength
Bird calls
database
Search results
i-SEARCH
Time, season
Location, size
IITK Database
Beak, Sighting
Names
Plumage, Posture
Food, Nesting, Eggs
Possible Results
Word/phrase
search
General catalogue
view/ manual search
Database
IITK
Observation Fill
[OF]
Search in all Sections (thoroughly)
Search in specific
Category (e.g. size, location)

11. i- SEARCH
Options matching
the picture
Options matching
the information
Found the
perfect match
Update personal
database
(picture, videos)
Share on social
network
Report the
sighting in global
database
Update migration
information
Write blogs
Found a new
Specie
Shout out
Report
organization for
verification
Select from the
family
Photo Recorded Sound
Observed
information

12. >>

13. SEARCH
SPECIE
BIRDS AT LOCATION
HINTS:
Use “not sure” button if you don’t remember the exact observation.
x
! >>

14. BIRDS AT LOCATION
Goa Map Search
i SEARCH
>>

15. BIRDS AT LOCATION
Goa Map Search
Bird checklist for Goa Where to look for birds in Goa.
>>
+ Download
i SEARCH
+ Download

16. SEARCH
SPECIE
BIRDS AT LOCATION
HINTS:
Use “not sure” button if you don’t remember the exact observation.
x
! >>

17. SPECIE search
HINTS:
Use “smart search” button for choice specific options.
x
>>S
Family Specific
Search
General
Search
What is smart search? (click hear)

18. Select the possible category/family of bird. (click here for picture selection)i SEARCH
Picture Verify
 Grebes
 Pelicans
 Cormorants, Darter
 Heron, Egret, Bitterns
 Storks
 Ibises, Spoonbill
 Ducks, Geese
 Kites, Buzzards, Eagles, Vultures
 Falcons
 Pheasants, Partridges, Quails
 Bastard Quails
 Cranes
 Rails, Coots
 Jacanas
 Painted Snipes
 Stilts, Avocets
 Stone Curlews
 Coursers, Prantincoles
 Plovers, Sandpipers, Snipes
 Gulls, Terns
 Sand Grouse
 Doves, Pigeons
 Parrots
 Cuckoos
 Owls
 Nightjars
 Swifts
 Kingfishers
 Bee eaters
 Rollers
 Hoopoes
 Horn bills
 Barbets
 Woodpeckers
 Larks
 Swallons
 Shrikes
 Orioles
 Drongos
 Mynas
 Crows, Magpies
 Cuckoo Shrikes
 Minivets
 Loras !
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19. Use picture from album
Use camera
SPECIE SEARCH
Observations (Please fill in the observations if any)
1) Time of day when the bird was sight - :
2) Season - Winter Month- December
3) Location - Goa
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Map Search
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i SEARCH
noon
4) Size of the Bird 15 or ½ Peacockinches
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20. Observations (Please fill in the observations if any)
3) Location - Goa Map Search
i SEARCH
>>

21. Observations (Please fill in the observations if any)
NAMES English Name Latin Name
Common Name Local Name
Bird ID
i SEARCH
Picture Verify
>>
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22. i SEARCH
4) Beak (select the type of beak)
>>
Picture Verify
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23. Observations (Please fill in the observations if any)
6)
7) Place of sighting
8) Posture Details
Male Female
In field In group On wire
Tree Near water Above animal
Buildings
Hopping
i SEARCH
Picture Verify
>>
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24. Observations (Please fill in the observations if any)
5) Plumage Details
Percentage of plumage 25 %
Color Spotted
Plumage in parts Wings (flight)
Wings closed
Head
Neck
Tail
Legs
i SEARCH
Picture Verify
S
>>
eyes

25. Observations (Please fill in the observations if any)
Color Spotted
Plumage in parts Upper part
Under part
Fill in your own words
i SEARCH
Picture Verify
S
>>
Description

26. Observations (Please fill in the observations if any)
8) Select the Tail shape
(more tail types)
Notched Tail
Forked Tail
Pointed Tail Rounded Tail Squared Tail
Fan-shaped TailWedge shaped Tail Unique Tail
i SEARCH
Picture Verify
>>
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27. Expert Fill
FOOD
i SEARCH
NESTING
EGGS
CALL DETAILS
Picture Verify
>>

28. Search Results (select the bird for details which match your sighting)
Report your
discovery
Twit on network Update personal database+
Picture Verify
i SEARCH

29. Info
Handbook Number: 94
English Name: Common Teal
Latin Name: Anas crecca
Alternate Common Name: NA
Local Distribution: Insititute Campus and Bithoor
Status: Winter visitor
Frequency: NA
Local Names: Chhoti murghabi, Kerra, Lohiya kerra, Chowtee, Patari, Souchuruka (Hindi);
Naroib, Patari hans, Tulsibigri (Bengal); Baijla (Mirshikars,Bihar); Baijila gairi (Nepal); Kardo
(Sind); Chakrang (Marathi); Siravi, Kilawai (Tamil); Yeranda (Malayalam); Solari hakki
(Kannada); Kalimari, Chila hans, Patari hans (Assam); Daophlantu kashiba (Cachari);
Seruwa (Sinhala); Surit (Manipur).
Size: Domestic duck-; Cotton Teal+
Field Characters: Male pencilled greyish, with chestnut head and a broad metallic green
band running backward from eye to nape, bordered above and below by whitish lines. A
tricoloured wing speculum- black green, and buff- particularly conspicuous in flight.
Female mottled dark and light brown, with pale underparts and black and green speculum.
Flocks on tanks, jheels and marshes, etc.
Distribution: In winter throughout the Indian Union; Bangladesh; Pakistan; Sri Lanka;
Myanmar.
Habits: Perhaps our commonest migratory duck, and an excellent sporting bird, swift on
the wing and good for the table. Largely vegetarian in its diet, grubbing for grain and
tender shoots of rice and marsh plants in the squelchy mud of inundated paddy fields and
grassy tank margins. Also up-ends in shallow water.
Call: A low toned krit uttered by the drake, and a subdued wheezy quack by the duck.
Food: NA
i SEARCH
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Common teal
Update personal
database
Twit on network

30. Cases 1
General Search
Season - winter
Size – almost twice the size of crow
Sighting – On a tree
Plumage – Brown somewhere on the body (not sure)
Food – must be insects, beetles, etc

31. Search Results (select the bird for details which match your sighting)
Report your
discovery
Twit on network Update personal database+
Picture Verify
i SEARCH
Night Heron Brown hawk owl Chestnut Bittern
Barred jungle owl

32. Info
Handbook Number: 52 (More info)
English Name: Night Heron
Latin Name: Nycticorax nycticorax
Alternate Common Name: NA
Local Distribution: Insititute Campus and Bithoor
Status: Resident, Winter visitor
Frequency: NA
Local Names: Waak, Kwaak, tar bagla, Kokari (Hindi); Bor (Kashmir); Bachka (Bengla);
Chongkhu (Manipur); Raat kokku, Raj kok (Marathi); Awaak, Waak (Gujrat); Gadri (Sind);
Chinta wakha (Telgu); Vakka (Tamil); Toppi kokku (Malayalam); Re kana kokka (Sinhala).
Size: Paddy Bird
Field Characters: General effect of a stocky paddy Bird, with stouter bill. Ashy grey above
with glistening black back and scapulars; white below. Crown, nape and long occipital crest
black; the last with some white plumes intermixed. Young birds streaked brown, rather like
Paddy Bird. Sexes alike. Gregarious. Flying at dusk with loud, raucous kwaark.
Distribution: Throughout the Indian Union; Bangladesh; Pakistan; Sri Lanka; Myanmar.
Resident and locally migratory.
Habits: Largely crepuscular and nocturnal. Affects jheels and other inland waters as well as
tidal creeks and mangrove swamps. Colonies spend the daytime resting in some clump of
leafy trees, often far from water, and fly out to their accustomed feeding grounds at dusk
in straggling ones and twos uttering a distinctive kwaark from time to time. Flight like that
of the Paddy Bird - steady flapping, neck pulled in; in silhouette resembles both the flying
foxes and gulls. The same communal roosts and nesting trees are occupied year after year.
Call: NA
Food: Crabs, Fish, Frog, aquatic insects, etc. More actively procured and not usually in the
wait-and-strike manner of herons.
i SEARCH
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Night Heron
Twit on network
Update personal
database

33. Cases 2
Family Search
Season - winter
Size – Myna +
Plumage – Grey (general)
white (underpart)
Food –insects, mice, lizards, etc (from experience)
Eyes – Yellow (not sure)

34. Search Results (select the bird for details which match your sighting)
Report your
discovery
Twit on network Update personal database+
Picture Verify
i SEARCH
Spotted owlet Brown hawk owl Chestnut Bittern
Dusky horned owl Barred Jungle Owlet

35. Info
Handbook Number: 652
English Name: Spotted Owlet
Latin Name: Athene brama
Alternate Common Name: NA
Local Distribution: Institute campus
Status: Resident
Frequency: NA
Local Names: Oolloo, Khakusat, Khusattia, Chughad (Hindi); Pencha (Bihar); Kuture pencha
(Bengal); Dang tang pwn (Lepcha); Chibiru (Sind).
Size: Myna
Field Characters: A squat, white-spotted greyish brown little owl, with a typical large
round head and forwardly directed staring yellow eyes. Sexes alike. Pairs or family parties,
about villages, in ruins, and groves of ancient trees, etc.
Distribution: Throughout the Indian Union; Bangladesh; Pakistan; Myanmar. Not Sri Lanka.
Three races, on size and depth of coloration.
Habits:
Call: A large variety of harsh chattering, squabbling and chuckling notes, two individuals
frequently combining in a discordant duet.
Food: Chiefly beetles and other insects; also young birds and mice and lizards, etc.
Nesting: Season - principally November to April. Eggs - 3 or 4, white roundish ovals. Laid
on an untidy pad of tow or fibres in tree-hollows, holes in crumbling walls, or between
ceiling and roof of deserted as well as occupied dwellings. Both sexes share all the
domestic duties.
i SEARCH
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Spotted owlet
Twit on network
Update personal
database

36. Future Scope
This application is right now developed for birds which can and will be developed
for whole wild life.
A search for species for all wild life is the ultimate project idea.
The application can be launched pre-installed in a device designed for a elite class
of wild life enthusiasts.
It will also serves as a personal database, a social network tool for wild life world
and a updater.

37. SOCIAL NETWORK
Profile: Name and basic information
Favorite places, species
Wish list
Discoveries
Achievements and Awards
Clubs and communities
Other activities:
Events organizations
Adventure trip plans
Information Sharing
Reports, stories and Blogs
Albums and videos
Guidance/tutorials for rookies
Lonely planet, Facebook, Twitter, etc

38. PERSONAL DATABASE
To maintain a personal collection of the information of
-the discoveries made
-places visited
-birds found
-track of birds
-reports, notes and stories
Allows you to sync certain information with your online
profile.
Comparisons about the explorations with the same
sort of buddies.

39. Get News Feed according to your preferences.
Get updates of latest discoveries
Upcoming events, opportunities and competitions.
Its always smarter to club it with basic phone facilities
The phone provides facilities of GPS, ToDo facility, satellite
internet and at least a camera.

40. Future Scope
This application is right now developed for birds which can and will be developed
for whole wild life.
A search for species for all wild life is the ultimate project idea.
The application can be launched pre-installed in a device designed for a elite class
of wild life enthusiasts.
It will also serves as a personal database, a social network tool for wild life world
and a updater.

41. THANK YOU Project Guide
Prof: Kaumudi Patil
Alap Shah
Y8119001

42. A TWIT BY:
ALAP SHAH