Welcome to New Hampshire eBird
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Introducing New Hampshire eBird
New Hampshire Audubon and New Hampshire Bird Records (NHBR) have teamed up to collaborate with eBird and are excited to announce the release of New Hampshire eBird, an eBird portal specifically tailored to the Granite State. Not only does this website provide a version of eBird with a New Hampshire focus, but it will also help to revise and improve the reporting framework for New Hampshire Bird Records. From now on, reporting to New Hampshire eBird will be all you need to do to make sure your sightings are available for publication in NHBR, as well as a wide range of other uses.
Report your fall sightings to New Hampshire Bird Records
And do it through New Hampshire eBird! With the release of New Hampshire eBird, the editors of New Hampshire Bird Records (NHBR) will now be harvesting your data directly from eBird. No need to spend days digging through notebooks or to send us spreadsheets--we'll be watching your submissions and pulling out your most interesting sightings. We do still ask you to document your rarities for us. We may be contacting you for documentation throughout the season or at the end as we work on the New Hampshire Bird Records summary. And for those that need some time to ramp up to using eBird, or that live in areas without fast internet connections, we are working to set up a process for NHBR to upload them on your behalf--look for more information to come.
Have You Seen a Rare Bird? – Be sure to document it!
Rare birds are fun and exciting to see, but they can also be valuable to our knowledge of species occurrence and distribution if they are well documented. The best documentation provides enough details that someone looking at the sighting 50 years from now will be confident of the identification. New Hampshire Bird Records (NHBR) collects and archives bird sighting documentation and the New Hampshire Rare Birds Committee (NHRBC) reviews the sightings. All eBird data is reviewed and there may be times when someone, such as the NHBR Season Editor, asks you for documentation or more details on a specific sighting. Don’t be alarmed or offended – they are looking after the quality of data that will be used for many, many years to come.
Location! Location! Location!
Exactly where you plot your birding locations on the map is critical for eBird in many ways. When you are specific with your location information we can perform better analyses, and we can ensure that your birding lists are built correctly. eBird thrives on location specificity, and a good general rule of thumb when entering data is that it's always better to enter shorter checklists from more refined locations than longer checklists from a string of unrelated locations. In this article we'll discuss why being as precise as possible with your birding locations yields the best results.
What in the world is "Herring Gull (American)"?
Most species names in eBird are easily found with a glance at your field guide, but eBird also allows entry of a number of other birds (sometimes we call them 'taxa') whose names do not appear in any guides. These break down into three main groups: hybrids, spuhs, and subspecies groups. Hybrids all have the word "hybrid" in the name (e.g., Mallard x Gadwall (hybrid)) and all spuhs either have a "sp." (e.g., scoter sp.) or slash (e.g., Greater/Lesser Scaup) in the name. The subspecies groups, such as "Herring Gull (American)", are more complicated and explained in this article.
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- Most Checklists Submitted for Current Month
- Rockingham -- 171
- Hillsborough -- 151
- Merrimack -- 78
- Carroll -- 31
- Coos -- 22
- Strafford -- 16
- Grafton -- 14
- Belknap -- 13
- Cheshire -- 12
- Sullivan -- 3
