Overview
This dataset contains 357k+ images collected across 216 camera traps in the San Francisco Bay Area and surroundings. This data was collected by Felidae Conservation Fund as part of their research for the Bay Area Puma Project and Bay Area Bobcat Project. There are 66 category labels, most of which are species. However, there are also general groupings such as “unknown bird”, “unknown squirrel”, “invertebrate”, “reptile”, etc. There are also prey animal labels such as “prey-mammal” and “prey-bird”. The most common labels are mule deer (29,189 images), gray fox (18,610 images), and bobcat (11,764 images). Blank images and images containing humans have been removed.
Citation, license, and contact information
If you use this dataset, please cite:
Granados A, McDonald Z, McPherson K, Stoner D. Unraveling the impact of dog‐friendly spaces on urban–wildland pumas and other wildlife. Wildlife Biology. 2024 Aug:e01290.
For questions about this data set, contact Zara McDonald at Felidae Conservation Fund.
This data set is released under the Community Data License Agreement (permissive variant).
Data format
Annotations (including species tags and unique location identifiers) are provided in COCO Camera Traps format.
For information about mapping this dataset’s categories to a common taxonomy, see this page.
Downloading the data
Metadata is available here.
