Do you want to become a community scientist? Seven Capes Bird Alliance invites you to attend the last session in our fall webinar series, Your Data Is for the Birds, all about community science and how YOU can make a difference for bird conservation! Join us for our third and final session, Giving Back to Birds by Contributing Observations to eBird with Dr. Douglas Robinson on December 3, 6-7:30 p.m.
eBird is an online community science project managed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society for birders to record and share their bird sightings. The project acts as a global database of bird observations, used by both amateur birders and professional scientists to track bird populations and distribution. Originally focused on the Western Hemisphere, eBird has expanded to include the entire world, making it a truly global database.
Birders use eBird to create personal checklists and note time and location of sightings, and scientists aggregate, analyze, and visualize these same data through maps, charts, and other tools, helping them track bird populations, migration patterns, and more. Thus, the data collected by eBird are used by scientists, researchers, and conservation organizations to understand and protect bird populations. Learn how this free and accessible program makes it easy for anyone to participate and contribute to bird conservation.
Douglas Robinson is Professor of Wildlife Science and Curator of Birds at Oregon State University. He is Chief Editor of the academic journal Frontiers in Bird Science. Doug states that birds are his expertise, vocation, and avocation. He studies wild birds to understand how and why they respond to environmental change, as well as why they live their lives in the ways they do. Doug is committed to establishing benchmarks of biodiversity to help future generations truly understand how bird populations change through time. To that end, he is one the world’s top contributors to the citizen science database, eBird.
When: Wednesday, December 3, 6-7:30 p.m.
Where: Online via Zoom. Webinar is free, but pre-registration is required. Register at www.sevencapes.org/dataforthebirds.
All sessions in the Your Data Is for the Birds series will be recorded and made available at www.sevencapes.org/dataforthebirds. This series is brought to you by Seven Capes Bird Alliance in partnership with Oregon Birding Association, Mid-Willamette Bird Alliance, Cascade Head Biosphere Collaborative, and the OSU Bird Nerds.
Seven Capes Bird Alliance was founded as Audubon Society of Lincoln City in 2005. A nonprofit membership organization and chapter of the National Audubon Society, Seven Capes is active in education and advocacy for protection of birds, other wildlife, and their habitats in Lincoln and Tillamook Counties.