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Volunteer Guidance for the Final Season of the VABBA2 With some perseverance (and good weather), the VABBA2 can reach 100% priority block coverage, as well as set a Virginia record for block completion, in the final year of VA’s second breeding bird atlas project. Our volunteers have already managed to surpass the number of blocks […]
This is a question we often find ourselves asking each spring, as residents birds get busy with their breeding activities and migratory birds begin moving through Virginia. The simplest way to address this question is to consult our handy Breeding Timeline Charts found on the Atlas website (vabba2.org).
Despite the recent snows, birds are singing and spring is in the air! As thoughts turn towards this year’s Atlas activities, some volunteers may be pondering over their Atlas blocks.
As we enter the earliest phase of the 2019 breeding season, more and more reports of Great-Horned Owl breeding activity are coming int to the Atlas. While it is still early for detecting breeding activity of the other VA-breeding owl species, this is a good time to review key tips for nocturnal surveying.
Migratory birds, particularly those colorful, diverse species that spend winter in the Neotropics and summer in the US, add a new dimension to collecting breeding data for the VA Breeding Bird Atlas. Breeding codes should be used carefully in the late Spring and early Summer.
This is the third of the VABBA2 data entry tutorials. If you missed the first two, check them out here: Tutorial 1: Recording incidental checklists Tutorial 2: Submitting complete checklists In this article, we will focus on location precision. The main messages are: Rather than reporting everything from your block at a single location, make a number […]
This is the second in a series of tutorials walking you through the process for submitting your bird observations for the second Virginia Breeding Bird Atlas. The first highlighted Incidental Observations and can be found here.
Maybe Atlas volunteers find themselves asking where they should submit their breeding data? Simply put, if your checklist has ANY breeding codes on it, then it should be submitted to the Atlas eBird portal at https://ebird.org/atlasva/home.
Atlas Data Entry Round 1: Incidental Observations* We will be posting a series of tutorials walking you through the process for submitting your bird observations for the second Virginia Breeding Bird Atlas. For this first article, we will assume that you noticed an adult and juvenile Bald Eagle at a nest.
