Incubase – where eggs hatch knowledge
Every egg has its story. Incubase is an open platform that helps preserve, understand and share these stories. Whether you are a breeder, curator, or scientist interested in bird reproduction, you will find an invaluable assistant in Incubase that will allow you to work more efficiently and help us all advance the boundaries of knowledge. Anyone who has ever been involved in hatching eggs knows it is a fascinating and fragile process requiring experience, where even small changes can determine success. Incubase was born from this thought.
Incubase represents, among other things:
- A set of smart tools that allow precise analysis of incubation progress for specific eggs and provide real-time recommendations for incubator settings.
- A black box for your data - no more searching through old notebooks, everything is organized and at hand.
- A database of incubation data allowing its efficient management and sharing between institutions.
- A living encyclopedia of bird incubation, continuously updated with analysis of new data in real time.
- A place where scientists can connect with data originators tailored to their research.
Introductory video
Who is Incubase for?
For breeders:
your digital assistant in the hatchery
For curators:
keep all data under control, order in hatcheries and peace of mind!
For scientists:
data you otherwise wouldn't get
Incubase Benefits
For breeders:
- Record, track, and analyze the incubation of each egg easily and clearly.
- Get instant recommendations to optimize incubator settings and egg distribution between incubators.
- Let Incubase keep track of hatch and incubator maintenance dates for you.
- Get inspiration from analyses of successfully incubated eggs in your and other collections.
For curators:
- Keep all incubation data recorded and continuously analyzed.
- Minimize errors with automatic data validation during entry.
- Create reports and data exports for EAZA, UCSZOO or your own needs in a few clicks.
- Get assistance creating evidence-based methodological guidelines.
- Share your data with the scientific community and be part of research.
For scientists:
- Gain access to large, standardized, and valuable datasets.
- Include hundreds of often little-studied species in research.
- Use efficient and flexible search across available data.
- Easily arrange terms of use after connecting with breeders and data owners.
How does Incubase work?
You can get started in a few minutes:
Sign Up
Create a free account (as individual or institution).
Hatcheries
Enter data about the hatcheries you operate.
Data
Enter data on incubated eggs.
Analysis
Monitor development: visualizations, losses, success rates.
Sharing
Join the community and science.
Creators and contacts
BERG - CZU Prague
We are the Behavioral Ecology Research Group (BERG) at the Department of Ecology at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences of the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague. You may have encountered our other activities including the project "Lapwing tracks", which enables real-time tracking of lapwing migration.
Safari Park Dvůr Králové
Partners in Endangered Species Breeding
Brno Zoo
Partners in Endangered Species Breeding
Do you have questions? Contact us:
Martin Sládeček
Petr Chajma
Funding
This project is co-financed through the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic as part of the National Recovery Plan from the European Recovery and Resilience Facility. Details here.
Use of modern biologging tools, data sharing and user-friendly data analysis to optimize incubation of endangered bird species in human care.
- Project Registration Number: SS07020438
- Provider: Technologická agentura ČR
- Program: Prostředí pro život (7. VS)
- Project coordinator: ČZU
- Project partners: ZOO Brno, ZOO Dvůr Králové
- Project Solver: Mgr. Martin Sládeček, Ph.D.
The project develops methodological potential for using modern monitoring tools and statistical methods to increase the efficiency of ex situ bird rearing. Its aim is to develop and test a suite of tools and procedures that, when implemented in breeding practice, will improve rearing success—particularly for species that are difficult to breed and often endangered—by: 1) reducing losses during natural rearing in human care, 2) increasing hatch success under artificial rearing, and 3) improving the quality of offspring from artificial rearing. The outputs are designed for comprehensive use in the operations of the applicants and other breeding collections in the Czech Republic and abroad, potentially contributing significantly to the conservation of endangered species dependent on captive breeding.
