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This month’s eBirder of the month challenge, sponsored by Carl Zeiss Sports Optics, focuses on documenting your eBird sightings using photos and audio. As announced in early November, we are ecstatic to have our Media Upload tool available across eBird—a partnership with the Macaulay Library that now allows you to drag-and-drop your media right into any eBird checklist, archiving it in Macaulay.

To encourage people to help build this burgeoning media collection, the challenge this month focuses on collecting media as part of your eBirding efforts. The eBirder of the month will be drawn from eBirders who submit at least 15 complete no-X checklists containing rich media in December. Winners will be notified by the 10th of the following month.

Each month we will feature a new eBird challenge and set of selection criteria. The monthly winners will each receive a new ZEISS Conquest HD 8×42 binocular.