CamAlien Roadkill Watch

Citizen science

Help us map the wildlife
lost to our roads

We are training an AI model to spot roadkilled animals from vehicle-mounted cameras. To make it work across species, seasons and conditions, we need far more real animal encounters than one research team can drive past — and that is where your dashcam comes in.

Contribute your footage

What we are looking for

Two kinds of clips make the difference

Roadkill sightings

Any dead animal on or beside the road — from hedgehogs and badgers to deer and birds of prey.

Live animals near roads

Just as valuable. The model has to tell a living animal apart from a carcass.

Please skip ordinary driving footage. We already hold millions of frames of empty road, so clips with no animal in them do not add anything. Send us the moments that do.

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Contribute your footage

Both fields below are optional — leave them blank and your contribution is stored anonymously. Filling them in lets us credit you and ask a follow-up question if a clip needs context. Please don't invent a name: an empty field is more useful to us than a fake one, because we can tell the difference.

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Drop images and videos here

or browse your files — you can also drop a whole folder

Your files are stored privately for research. Nothing you upload is shown publicly on this site, and no one but the project team can see it.

Questions

Good to know

Can anyone see what I upload?

No. This page can only send files in — it has no way to list, browse or play back anything that has been uploaded, by you or by anyone else. Submissions go straight to private research storage accessible only to the project team.

What is CamAlien?

CamAlien is the camera system this project is built around — it records from a moving vehicle and runs detection on what it sees. This page collects the training footage that teaches it to recognise roadkilled animals. There is a fuller description on the CamAlien project page.

What happens to my footage?

It is used to train and evaluate the CamAlien detection model, and may be annotated by the research team. We do not sell it or pass it to third parties.

Do I have to give my name and email?

No — both are optional and you can upload completely anonymously. If you do provide them, we can credit you as a contributor and contact you when a clip needs context, such as where or when it was recorded. Your details are stored with your submission and are never published. Note that without an email address we have no way to identify your submission later, so we cannot act on a deletion request unless you keep the reference number.

What should I not upload?

Please avoid footage where people or readable licence plates are the focus, and only upload material you recorded yourself or have permission to share.

My video is very large. Will it work?

Large files are fine — see the limits shown in the drop area. Very large uploads take a while, so keep the page open until you see the confirmation. Uploading over Wi-Fi rather than mobile data is a good idea.

Can I have my contribution removed?

Yes. Email us with your reference number and we will delete your submission.