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Citizen Science or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love eBird

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Steve Kelling from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology gave the keynote talk, “The Birder Effect: Birding, Science, and Conservation.” The talk described eBird’s origins in 2002 and traced its history as a project aimed at using “citizen science” to help researchers and conservationists learn more about birds. .

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Saving the Spotted Owl—Zalea’s Story: A KidLit Bird Book Review

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Award-winning free-lance science journalist Nicola Jones , most noted for her work on climate change and environmental issues, ventured into the book world with a picture book on the wildlife rehabilitation efforts for one of North America’s most endangered bird species, the Northern Spotted Owl.

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The ABA’s 50th Anniversary and Information: From Scarce to Abundant

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What is apparent from the reprint, as well as other accounts of the ABA’s early years, is that the ABA was founded in large part to address information and communication shortcomings in the birding community. If anything, there is now an abundance of high-quality easily-accessible information for birders.

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Birds On The Brink

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The Audubon Society just released Audubon’s Birds and Climate Change Report: 314 Species on the Brink. The web site has a number of other features and organized bits of information. The various species are linked to habitat information, and the climate change information from the IPCC is used to estimate shifts in bird ranges.

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Find The Data North America Bird Migration

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The more data about bird migration we gather from professional and citizen science efforts, the more each one of us can learn about the comings and goings of our favorite species. But information wants to be free, so it reaches out to us through a variety of channels. Fun, right? The Aircraft Bird Strikes reference.

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The most important book about European birds in this century

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Although we do enjoy it immensely, we are not doing it for fun, but to gather information on distribution, habitat choice and density of breeding pairs. European Breeding Bird Atlas 2 presents information on all species reported to breed in the study period (2013 to 2017) and some with more uncertain breeding status.

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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

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There is a wealth of information about these marvelous creatures, given via prose essays, and charts, and tables – it’s all quite user-friendly. Myers, a professional birding guide in “real life,” summarizes the etymology and history of all common bird names (of bird families and groups, not all 10,000-plus species).

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