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Birding News and Features
April Tricolored Blackbird Survey a Huge Success!
The 2008 Tricolored Blackbird Survey was a great success, thanks to 160 volunteers who donated their time and expertise before, during, and after the survey. Our total count was approximately 402,000 birds, 144,000 more than were counted in 2005. Audubon California thanks all the volunteer whose participation in this survey is an important contribution that will help guide future conservation efforts for this species.
Southbound Shorebirds Return to California!
Make Your Checklists More Meaningful!
As the eBird database grows by leaps and bounds, it is becoming ever more valuable. Your observations are making a huge difference in our understanding of birds at many levels. Our scientists are now analyzing your data to find new patterns in bird distribution, abundance and population trends. Although every record submitted to eBird is valuable, only observations with effort can be used in these more rigorous analyses, so we would like to promote several bird survey techniques that we consider most valuable in this regard. Make the most of your birding by conducting traveling counts, stationary counts and area counts in a more meaningful way. In this feature we'll give examples of how to make your observations count for bird conservation!
eBird & Flickr -- Share Your Bird Photos
We receive many requests from users who would like to be able to upload images of birds that they have photographed. This is particularly true for rarities (birds seen outside their normal range, or at an odd time of year). In the long-run we would like to integrate this feature directly into eBird, but we have come up with a short-term solution. We have created a group within the popular photo-sharing site, Flickr (www.flickr.com). We encourage anyone who has photographs of rare birds to share them with this group (making sure, of course, that you have already submitted the record to eBird!). Our intent is to provide a venue for people to photographically document species seen outside their normal range, outside their normal seasonal occurrence, or unexpectedly large counts of birds.
