Katy Penland
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For all BF members who bird in the Americas!
Want to call your attention to Cornell's Lab of Ornithology ongoing eBird Project, and especially to an article written by eBird's project leaders that appeared in the American Birding Association's Fall 2004 magazine and now made available FREE on the ABA's website to non-ABA members.
It's an extremely informative article on the importance of casual birding data. I'm posting it here in the hope that all our American (North, Central and South) members as well as those who take birding holidays in the Americas will consider entering their birding lists into this global database. Doesn't matter if you're in one spot for only an hour, covering several states/provinces while on holiday, or if you've got years of yard lists sitting in notebooks or birding software -- every little bit helps build a picture over time of what species are being seen where and under what conditions.
I hope everyone reading this will contribute to this project. It's very easy to enter data, and you can look at the details of your reporting in any number of ways, all printable or downloadable. I've already started entering my Arizona yard lists; one year down, three to go! And then I'll start on my casual trip lists I've managed to accumulate. :t:
Here's the ABA article:
"Changing Seasons: A Plea for the Common Birds" by Brian L. Sullivan and Christopher L. Wood, project leaders for Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology eBird Project.
http://americanbirding.org/pubs/nab/archives/vol59no1p18to30.pdfhttp://www.americanbirding.org/pubs/nab/archives/index.html
Want to call your attention to Cornell's Lab of Ornithology ongoing eBird Project, and especially to an article written by eBird's project leaders that appeared in the American Birding Association's Fall 2004 magazine and now made available FREE on the ABA's website to non-ABA members.
It's an extremely informative article on the importance of casual birding data. I'm posting it here in the hope that all our American (North, Central and South) members as well as those who take birding holidays in the Americas will consider entering their birding lists into this global database. Doesn't matter if you're in one spot for only an hour, covering several states/provinces while on holiday, or if you've got years of yard lists sitting in notebooks or birding software -- every little bit helps build a picture over time of what species are being seen where and under what conditions.
I hope everyone reading this will contribute to this project. It's very easy to enter data, and you can look at the details of your reporting in any number of ways, all printable or downloadable. I've already started entering my Arizona yard lists; one year down, three to go! And then I'll start on my casual trip lists I've managed to accumulate. :t:
Here's the ABA article:
"Changing Seasons: A Plea for the Common Birds" by Brian L. Sullivan and Christopher L. Wood, project leaders for Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology eBird Project.
http://americanbirding.org/pubs/nab/archives/vol59no1p18to30.pdfhttp://www.americanbirding.org/pubs/nab/archives/index.html
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