Application of the Few-Shot Algorithm for the Estimation of Bird Population Size in Chihuahua and Its Ornithological Implications

Abstract
Biodiversity conservation is a major global concern, some of the problems it faces are simple only in definition and easy to observe as pollution, destruction and habitat fragmentation; and there are more complex ones such as climate change and global warming leading to the loss of biodiversity, but all these factors have something in common, are mainly anthropogenic consequences. For this reason, bioindicators of environmental health are used and this allows us to evaluate the causes and effects in the short or long term. In the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, birds are some of the organisms that fulfill the role of bioindicators, since they are found in large quantities and varieties in various parts of the state, this added to the anthropogenic causes, lead to decrease in population sizes or changes in birds distribution, makes necessary to determine or create a suitable way to estimate birds populations and changes that suffer over time. With all this context, the rapid advances of today’s technologies make it possible for them to be used in various sciences, using them as tools that allow deeper analysis in a shorter time, the Few-Shot algorithm is one of these tools, since its application allows estimating population size using images and algorithms for counting and estimating a bird population, allowing decisions to be made with more and better information within ornithology and environmental conservation.