This
week Eremaea Birds joined forces with Cornell Lab of Ornithology and
is now migrating all its list data (some 3.5 million records
from nearly 1000 observers) to Cornell’s
eBird. This process is expected to be complete by 1
February 2014. All Eremaea Birds sites have been re-created
in eBird. All Eremaea Birds members, except those who opted
out, are now registered with eBird and can start entering
lists. eBird offers a similar range of atlas reports to
Eremaea Birds such as the Hotspots Explorer which allows
readers to find information on all shared sites; Range and Point maps which
show species distribution;
and a Recent Lists report. With this move Eremaea Birds no
longer accepts lists but will remain open for Birdline
reports, with the original site now being known as Eremaea Birdlines.
If
you would like a great place to keep your personal bird
records and at the same time contribute to one of the
world’s best citizen science projects, please register
with eBird now. It
is important for COG members to know that eBird records
are collected by both Birdlife Australia and COG and used
in each organisation’s atlas.
Please
get in touch if you would like further information about
keeping lists with eBird.
