The third annual Big Atlas Weekend is this week, running from 6:00 pm on Friday evening, June 23 through 11:59 pm on Sunday night, June 25. This fun event is a great way to contribute to NY Breeding Bird Atlas III and also join a community of birders participating in current breeding bird atlases from Newfoundland and Labrador to Puerto Rico.
Participating is easy—just go atlasing during the Big Atlas Weekend time window and submit your checklist(s) through the NY Breeding Bird Atlas portal in eBird. And just for participating, you'll receive a $20 coupon for any Cornell Lab Bird Academy course! There is also a chance to win a totally free Bird Academy course by completing one or more of these challenges: - Submit a nocturnal checklist (submitted between 20 minutes after sunset and 40 minutes before sunrise) - Submit a breeding code for a new species in a block or upgrade a species in a block - Submit a checklist with breeding codes from an incomplete block - Share Atlas-related photos tagged on Facebook (@nybba3), Instagram (@nybbaiii), or Twitter (@nybbaiii). To get things started, there will be a fun Big Atlas Weekend kickoff event on Wednesday, June 21 from 6-8 pm (ET). This event will feature a bird trivia contest and will include Atlas participants from New York, Maryland and DC, Newfoundland and Labrador, North Carolina, Ontario, and Puerto Rico! If you're new to Atlasing, or just enjoy birding with others, NYS birders have organized a variety of social Big Atlas Weekend birding events across the state. For full details about Big Atlas Weekend, visit the New York Breeding Bird Atlas III website: https://ebird.org/atlasny/news/big-atlas-weekend-2023 <https://ebird.org/atlasny/news/big-atlas-weekend-2023?mc_cid=b9835f56ad&mc_eid=017d79c905> Good birding, Matt Medler -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
