eBird
The Klamath Bird Observatory is pleased to announce that the Winter Wings Festival will be using eBird to contribute data to science and conservation in 2011. All birding field trips at this festival will be eBird field trips.
Festival bird field trip volunteer assistants will be provided with instructions and forms specially designed by Klamath Bird Observatory to ensure that their checklists are appropriately prepared for submission to the online Klamath-Siskiyou eBird database (www.ebird.org/Klamath-Siskiyou). You will need to track species, location, and numbers.
Klamath Bird Observatory will host an eBird booth at the Winter Wings Festival where bird walk checklists will be continually submitted and the latest eBird festival data will be displayed. At Winter Wings we will partner with the Klamath Basin Audubon Society. By entering eBird data at the booth, we will keep track of our festival bird checklists, share them with participants, and explore bird observation data from throughout the region. Further, we will contribute to conservation science by contributing data to the Avian Knowledge Network (www.avianknowledge.net) through Klamath-Siskiyou eBird. Also at the booth, festival participants will be able to create their own accounts and receive one-on-one eBird training. Our goal is to recruit 50 new eBirders at the festival!
Please join us in supporting these eBird festivals as we contribute to bird conservation.