Introducing Priority Migrant eBird
Golden-winged Warbler, photograph by Roger Eriksson.
Welcome to Priority Migrant eBird!
(Para instrucciones en Espanol, clicke aVerAves.)
The goal of Priority Migrant eBird is to collect the non-breeding
season distribution information needed to generate effective rangewide
conservation strategies for long-distance migratory species that have
experienced precipitous population declines over the last few
decades.
The project was initially conceived by the international committees of
the Golden-winged Warbler Working Group (Alianza Alas Doradas) and
the Cerulean Warbler Technical Group (El Grupo Cerúleo) as a tool
for addressing the lack of information on non-breeding season
distributions for these two species in Central and northern South
America. In order to maximize the number of contributors among the
banding, conservation, research, education, and birding communities,
and to minimize the effort needed to contribute records, these groups
decided to use the power of eBird to facilitate data entry and to
produce exciting output products that will be able to track the dynamic
distributions of high priority species.
Priority Migrant eBird is asking contributors to submit records for the
following target species:
Cerulean Warbler (Dendroica cerulea)
Golden-winged Warbler (Vermivora chrysoptera)
Blue-winged Warbler (Vermivora pinus)
Canada Warbler (Wilsonia canadensis)
Olive-sided Flycatcher (Contopus cooperi)
While the focus is on current records (Spring 2006), contributors are
encouraged to enter historical records from previous years as well.
