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New Feature--eBird Checklist Sharing!
Do you have a group of birding friends that are all devoted eBird users? Has it been frustrating that each of you has to enter your joint birdwalks into eBird separately? We are very excited to release eBird Checklist Sharing, which now allows you to copy checklists to another user’s account with the click of a mouse. From now on, when you go birding with friends you can designate who will be keeping the list and that person can enter the eBird list for the group. That checklist can be shared with the group using just an email address or eBird username. And once a checklist has been shared, you can add or delete species observed so that the list represents just what YOU saw. Read on for more information.
BirdBase Export to eBird Now Available!
Peter Bono has written and made available a new BirdBase utility, called BB2eBird, that allows users to export BirdBase sightings records to eBird. As with the AviSys announcement just last week, we have worked closely with Peter on this process. Sightings of many trips -- some of which were entered in BirdBase with no idea that they would later be used by a project such as eBird -- can be uploaded in one operation, saving lots of time. We thank Peter and Bob Eisberg of Santa Barbara Software Products for their commitment to the citizen science goals of eBird, and, of course, we look forward to receiving lots of historical sightings data from BirdBase users everywhere!
New Handheld Device Compatible With eBird
Wildlife Computing has recently released new software that runs on Pocket PCs called Pocket Bird Recorder. In addition to keeping bird lists, it is fully compatible with eBird data collection techniques, allowing users to gather meaningful data in the field using eBird's standardized protocol options. Keep your sightings in the field electronically on any of the many Windows Mobile Pocket PC devices, HP iPaq, Dell Axim, etc. Many cell phones, such as the Treo w series offered by Sprint, Verizon, and T-mobile, are compatible with Pocket Bird Recorder. After you’ve entered your sightings, the PBR program downloads and converts all your sightings and locations to a csv file stored on your computer. After importing this file to eBird all your locations and bird sightings transfer rapidly into your eBird stats, and are then visible on the 'My eBird' pages.
Western hummingbirds in the East--set your feeders out!!
East of the Mississippi, it is well-known that there is only one expected hummingbird--the familiar Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Ruby-throateds typically arrive in April and the bulk have departed by the first of October. However, any hummingbird seen after about 15 October is more likely to be a rare western species than a Ruby-throated! The excitement of one of these western visitors prompts many people to keep their hummingbird feeders hanging until late fall, or even all the way through spring. The yield is high; some homeowners as far north as New Jersey have had multiple appearances by rare hummingbirds. Try your luck and set out a feeder; below we discuss the possible species, give some tips on attracting late hummers, and discuss the identification of difficult species.
AviSys Export to eBird Launched!
We're pleased to announce that Jerry Blinn has launched a new AviSys utility that allows users to export records to eBird. We have worked closely with Jerry on this process over the past 18 months. He has been dedicated to making sure that AviSys users not only can export their data to eBird, but that they also have the tools available in AviSys to make their observations more valuable by adding associated effort information to each birding outing. We thank Jerry for his hard work on this, and we'd like to extend a big WELCOME to AviSys users everywhere!
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