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Press Release
How you can help save the planet: Where Birding Meets Science at eBird —
with Brian Sullivan April 18 7:30pm at the Arcata Community Center
Find out how you can become part of the big picture! Premier birder, Brian Sullivan, eBird Project Leader from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, will demonstrate how eBird has revolutionized the way that birders report and access information about birds. The
website www.eBird.org is amassing one of the largest and fastest growing biodiversity data resources in existence. In 2007, participants reported more than 8 million bird observations across North America! In this talk you’ll learn about the concept of
eBird, how it works and how you can contribute your observations to help conserve birds and biodiversity. Brian was one of the 4 lucky birders that found the record-shattering Lesser Frigatebird at the Lanphere Dunes near Arcata last year.
What is Klamath-Siskiyou eBird?
Launched in 2002 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society, eBird (http://ebird.org) has become one of the largest and fastest growing biodiversity resources in existence. eBird collects observations from birders through internet portals managed and maintained by local partner conservation organizations, such as the “Klamath-Siskiyou eBird” through Klamath and Humboldt Bay Bird Observatories and the Redwood Region Audubon Society. In the past two years alone, eBird has collected over 8 million observations from some 30,000 birders. Automated data quality filters developed by regional bird experts review all submissions before they enter the database. eBird is designed to allow local organizations, such as Audubon, to manage the information content, checklist filters, and editing, while archiving their data directly into an on-line warehouse shared by all eBird projects. In this way eBird internet portals target specific audiences with the highest level of local expertise, promotion, and project ownership. Portals may have a regional focus (otheres include aVerAves (Mexico), eBird Costa Rica, Texas eBird), or they may have more specific goals and/or specific methodologies (Bird Conservation Network eBird, Louisiana Winter Bird Atlas). Each eBird portal is fully integrated within the eBird database and application infrastructure so that data can be analyzed across political and geographic boundaries, both by participants and anyone accessing the data. Data is available to anyone for free in a variety of data visualizations (maps, graphs, and tables) and raw data is provided through the Avian Knowledge Network.
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