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eBird Illustrated Checklists are here!
You can now view a digital bird guide for any hotspot or region in the world: an Illustrated Checklist. The best part?
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Bird Academy giveaway: How to Identify Bird Songs
As summer winds down across much of the Northern Hemisphere, there's still a lot of bird song to be heard. Want to improve your audio birding skills?
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July eBirder of the Month Challenge
This month’s eBirder of the Month challenge, sponsored by Carl Zeiss Sports Optics, encourages you to share July birding with others. The eBirder of the Month will be drawn from eBirders who submit 15 eligible shared checklists during July.
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Bringing VABBA2 into the outdoor classroom
The 2017 Atlas season is rolling along and it’s high time to begin our volunteer profile series! These articles introduce members of our Atlas community who are making significant and unique contributions to the project.
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Global Big Day—one week away
The familiar Barn Swallow (right) has been recorded in eBird from 222 countries. You can hope to spot a Barn Swallow almost anywhere on the planet, from Alaska to Argentina, Siberia to Australia, Iceland to South Africa.
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April Millions
Last month brought two major milestones for eBird, amazingly each of the same bird species! On 8 April, Bill Thompson submitted a checklist from Massachusetts that included a Red-tailed Hawk: the 400-millionth sighting in eBird.
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Global Big Day webinars: 9 & 11 May
The Cornell Lab's BirdSleuth K-12 education program will be hosting a webinar for educators focusing on Global Big Day. The webinar will be offered four times, twice each in English and Spanish, on 9 May and 11 May.
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Bird Academy giveaway—Ornithology: Comprehensive Bird Biology
Have you ever wanted to learn more about how birds navigate in migration? The science behind flight?
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May eBirder of the Month Challenge
This May's eBirder of the Month challenge, sponsored by Carl Zeiss Sports Optics, is all about birding on Global Big Day! 13 May is the third Global Big Day, bringing together birders around the world for birding's biggest day.
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Student Adventures in Atlasing
The Atlas is a great opportunity to engage students, as well as birders, with wildlife conservation and to provide chances for learning more about bird identification and behavior. To that end, we are encouraging professors and students from around Virginia to consider how they might like to get involved with the VABBA2.
