Birds
eBird recent and notable sightings within a configurable radius. Distinct species, the first arrivals of the season, the nearest hotspot.
via eBird · iNaturalist
A new layer in CustodiaThe land has been speaking.
The land has been speaking.
Now it has a place to be heard.
Birders, naturalists, hydrologists, and arborists have been patiently gathering ecological data near every preserve, watershed, and easement you steward. Custodia listens — and interprets what the land is saying.
Why Voices
We don't ask the field to start over.
For a century, naturalists have been writing down what they see. Today that record lives in eBird checklists, iNaturalist photos, GBIF occurrences, USGS gauge readings, OpenTreeMap inventories, and satellite canopy data — billions of observations, freely shared.
Stewardship organizations rarely have time to read it. So Custodia listens for you. We pull the data quietly into the background of every site, summarize what's there, and let our Narrative Relational Intelligence translate it into three voices: witness, memory, and prophetic.
Custodia interprets, never duplicates.
Five voices
What the land is already telling us.
Each voice is a stream of observations from the people who already care about that part of the ecosystem. Custodia normalizes them into one calm, readable layer.
Trees
OpenTreeMap and municipal inventories merged with USFS satellite canopy. Species mix, dominant trees, i-Tree-style ecosystem benefits.
via OpenTreeMap · USFS NLCD · i-Tree
Biodiversity
Every observation iNaturalist and GBIF have logged near your land — taxa groups, photo evidence, research-grade vs casual.
via iNaturalist · GBIF
Water
USGS streamflow, gauge height, and watershed signals. Real-time readings woven into the seasonal story of the place.
via USGS Water · NOAA
Pollinators
Bees, butterflies, moths, and flower-visitors filtered out of the broader iNaturalist record. The hum beneath everything else.
via iNaturalist (filtered)
Three modes of NRI
Witness. Memory. What may be coming.
Custodia's Narrative Relational Intelligence reads each voice in three registers, regenerating the interpretation nightly for every site you steward.
Witness
What the land is saying right now.
Anchored to the last 14 to 30 days of observations. Recent arrivals, current streamflow, the latest research-grade sighting nearby.
Memory
What it has been saying.
Patterns across the season and year. Returns, recurrences, the species that quietly anchor this place across cycles.
Prophetic
What may be coming.
Hedged, careful interpretation of the signals. 'Worth watching.' 'May indicate.' Never certainty — always a place to begin a conversation.
Live block
One block. Five voices. Already listening.
This is the same block Custodia embeds on the public-facing page of any site you steward. It composes recent bird sightings, biodiversity observations, pollinator activity, tree inventory, canopy cover, and (when configured) live streamflow into a single calm summary.
The data on the right is live, sampled near Central Park.
Voices of this place
What the land near Central Park is saying
Birders, naturalists, hydrologists, and arborists have been gathering data here. A glimpse:
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bird species, 14d
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species observed
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pollinator sightings
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trees inventoried
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canopy cover
eBird · iNaturalist · OpenTreeMap · USFS Canopy · USGS — Custodia interprets, never duplicates.
Open data, properly attributed
Custodia stands on the work of others.
Every Voice cites its source. We never claim authorship of the underlying observation — we simply make it useful, local, and meaningful for the people stewarding the land.
eBird
Cornell Lab of Ornithology — recent + notable sightings
iNaturalist
Community species observations with photos
GBIF
Global Biodiversity Information Facility occurrences
USGS Water
Streamflow + gauge height in real time
OpenTreeMap
Public tree inventories from cities and groups
USFS NLCD
Satellite tree-canopy cover
i-Tree
Ecosystem benefit estimates per tree
NOAA
Watershed and weather context
Listen to the land you tend.
Voices ships free with every Custodia organization. Add a site, point at coordinates, and Custodia begins listening within minutes.