E-Birding: Technology is for the Birds

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GAINESVILLE, FL - Saturday, February 13^th, at 4:00PM The Alachua Audubon Society, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, and the National Audubon Society present Adam Kent at the Tower Road Library. 

Kent will be discussing the eBird program, which has revolutionized the way the birding community reports and accesses information about birds.

eBird is a real-time, online checklist program. Launched in 2002 eBird provides rich data sources for basic information on bird abundance and distribution at a variety of spatial and temporal scales.

eBird's goal is to maximize the utility and accessibility of the vast numbers of bird observations made each year by recreational and professional bird watchers. It is amassing one of the largest and fastest growing biodiversity data resources in existence. For example, in 2006, participants reported more than 4.3 million bird observations across North America.

The observations of each participant join those of others in an international network of eBird users. eBird then shares these observations with a global community of educators, land managers, ornithologists, and conservation biologists. In time these data will become the foundation for a better understanding of bird distribution across the western hemisphere and beyond.

OFFICIAL eBIRD WEBSITE:  http://ebird.org/content/ebird/