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eBirding on Christmas Bird Counts
Christmas Bird Count (CBC) season is here! For three weeks each year (14 December to 5 January) tens of thousands of birders head out to conduct the Audubon Christmas Bird Count™.
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eBird in Action: Using Citizen Science Data to Describe Long-term Range Changes in Kenya
A team of Kenyan conservationists used an eBird Basic Dataset alongside citizen science data from the Kenya Bird Map to map the changes in distribution patterns of all bird species across the entire country over the past 50 years.
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eBird in Action: Burning for Birds
“Birds are one of the best tools that we have for communicating with landowners about the benefits of prescribed fire,” notes Peter Kleinhenz, Executive Director of Aiken Land Conservancy. Some bird species, including Northern Bobwhite and Bachman’s Sparrow, depend on periodic fires to maintain their preferred open woodland habitats.
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