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The wonderful folks at eBird have teamed up with the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration in order to help predict and track migratory birds as they make their way from wintering grounds to breeding grounds in the United States and Canada. It’s pretty cool so check it out!

Now that you can input bird observation data from anywhere in the world into eBird there is some really cool information available, like world-wide range maps for any species in the world.  Of course, once more data is entered outside of North America the maps will be much more valuable.  Try it out; it’s fun!

That’s right, industrious birders can now enter sightings from anywhere in the world into eBird.  One of the issues with the world-widification (no, that is not a word) is that eBird does not necessarily have someone checking on the accuracy of the sightings being reported.  See, for example, the all-time top hundred list of birders [...]

Do you live in the southeastern United States (broadly defined)?  Are you a birder?  Then you should be helping count Rusty Blackbirds (Euphagus carolinus) right now!  Over the last forty years Rusty Blackbird populations have cratered, dropping between 85% and 98%.  Obviously, something is drastically wrong and the Rusty Blackbird Working Group and eBird have [...]

On the 21st of January of this year I began keeping track of all of my bird sightings on eBird, the online checklist program that was launched in 2002 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society.  Why did I decide to use eBird?  Well, since you’ve asked, there are several reasons.  [...]