eBird and Social Networking
Northern Pygmy-Owl, Larimer Co., Colorado, 24 February
We want to get to know you better, learn what you like about eBird and what you think needs improvement. We want to know why you use eBird, and we want to engage those who don’t to tell us why! We want to let you speak your minds about how we’re doing in providing this service to the birding community. Through collaboration, we’ll keep eBird evolving in the direction that best suits the needs of the birding community, all while keeping our internal focus on collecting valuable scientific data. We look forward to hearing from you. As we continue to develop eBird, we will build more social networking aspects into eBird. But in the short term, we think that a lot of existing tools work very well. Here are some of the best ways to keep in touch.
We plan to increasingly use Facebook as a way to interact with eBird users and birders who don't (yet!) use eBird. For those of you who already use Facebook, please become a fan of eBird, give us feedback, and keep up to date with what were doing. This is perhaps the best way to see upcoming events where you can meet Brian Sullivan, Marshall Iliff and Chris Wood (the three eBird Project Leaders affectionately referred to by our development team as the Three-headed Monster).
Chip Notes – eBird Buzz (The official eBird Blog)
Through the “Chip Notes – eBird Buzz” blog we hope to create an on-going dialogue with our users. We want to get to know you better, learn what you like about eBird and what you think needs improvement. We'll also showcase the ways that we use eBird and look forward to hearing how you do.
eBird Tech Talk
This is a discussion group hosted on Google to discuss largely technical questions about eBird, including questions about how the site works to specific questions about The eBird Site Survey or eBird County Birding.
Get quick updates about what's new at eBird. You can set Twitter to send these updates as text messages directly to your cell phone.
