# Birds in the cloud

DevFeed: [Birds in the cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/birds-in-the-cloud-4990.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://clickhouse.com/blog/birds>)

Author: Alexey Milovidov

Published: 2025-06-04T08:43:33Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [ClickHouse Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/clickhouse-blog.md>)

Topics: [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/clickhouse.md>), [data-processing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-processing.md>), [CSV](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/csv.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [interactive website](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/interactive-website.md>), [Zip](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/zip.md>), [Website](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/website.md>)

Tags: [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clickhouse.md>), [command-line](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/command-line.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [data-processing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-processing.md>), [interactive-website](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/interactive-website.md>), [zip](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/zip.md>)

## AI overview

This article demonstrates how to download, preview, process, and analyze the eBird bird-observation dataset with ClickHouse. It uses clickhouse-local to work with large CSV data inside a ZIP archive, then loads the data into clickhouse-server to support an interactive website.

## Source excerpt

ClickHouse handles 1.5B bird observations with ease. Alexey Milovidov shows how to go from raw data to interactive maps, with full pipeline and best practices.