This dataset contains 674,426 camera trap images of birds and mammals captured across a variety of wetland environments in Finland. The images were collected from multiple wetland sites and represent a diverse range of species, habitats, and environmental conditions. When possible, birds are labeled with adult/juvenile labels and counts. The most common categories are “empty” (660,935 images), “unidentified waterbird” (5,718 images), “adult mallard” (3,973 images), and “adult goldeneye” (2,205 images).
For questions about this data set, contact Basile Marteau.
This data set is released under the Community Data License Agreement (permissive variant).
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.
Metadata is available here.
Images are available in the following cloud storage folders:
- gs://public-datasets-lila/duck-pictures-in-wetlands (GCP)
- s3://us-west-2.opendata.source.coop/agentmorris/lila-wildlife/duck-pictures-in-wetlands (AWS)
- https://lilawildlife.blob.core.windows.net/lila-wildlife/duck-pictures-in-wetlands (Azure)
We recommend downloading images (the whole folder, or a subset of the folder) using gsutil (for GCP), aws s3 (for AWS), or AzCopy (for Azure). For more information about using gsutil, aws s3, or AzCopy, check out our guidelines for accessing images without using giant zipfiles.
If you prefer to download individual images via http, you can. For example, the thumbnail below appears in the metadata as:
kuivaskorpi/17.06.2025/101KDSP1/IMAG0613.JPG
This image can be downloaded directly from any of the following URLs (one for each cloud):
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MegaDetector results for all camera trap datasets on LILA are available here.
Information about mapping camera trap datasets to a common taxonomy is available here.
Posted by Dan Morris.
