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Birding Technology – The New Citizen Science

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But one of the most important aspects of these advances in new-age birding is the fact that they have grown hand-in-hand with the almost exponential growth in citizen science. Citizen science is a term used for the systematic collection and analysis of data and the dissemination of such data by researchers on a primarily voluntary basis.

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How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity: A Book Review by a Non-Science Person

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Doug Futuyma believes in science and in the scientific basis of evolution. How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity by Douglas J. Futuyma is a synthesis of theory and research about evolution and birds. I needed to read some sections more than once to get the gist.

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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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Sand Trap: Netting Red Knots for Science

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If you need to capture a bird for study or rehabbing, there are a number of tools at your disposal. That’s just what researchers on Cape Cod in Massachusetts are using–a cannon-fired net. Let’s hope the netted birds provide more information that points researchers to solutions. Their goal?

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Some thoughts on scientific collecting

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If you want to know why most scientists support collecting this piece in Science explains it better than I can. I can understand why some people are conflicted, but the value to science of the collections is immense. We should be honest about science and conservation, even if it isn’t always the easiest path.

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In defence of museum collections

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But as Bill Bryson notes, he did make one great contribution to the world (beyond his anatomical contributions of course), his reconceptualisation of museums from places only of research to places of research and public entertainment and education. Data from museums helps the IUCN make decisions about threatened species.

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Is the White-naped Xenopsaris Migratory? or The Limits of Citizen Science

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eBird has a range of data exploration tools that, to my mind, exist help birders bird. ” I can’t just put this into Wikipedia – it’s original research. Wikipedia doesn’t allow that lest it be overrun with all manner of research proving feminism causes cancer. Nothing wrong with that.

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