All, The only way to contribute to the NY Breeding Bird Atlas is through the special NY BBA portal on ebird. To do this, you must go into your ebird checklist(s) and in the upper right click on "Checklist Tools" and a drop down menu appears and you will see "change portal". Click on that and scroll down to find NY Breeding Bird Atlas III portal. Change the portal and you will be contributing to the BBA and also the main ebird database. A really good website on how to do all this and for your mobile app and computer can be found here. https://ebird.org/atlasny/about/submitting-data To sign-up for a block go to this website: https://lab.nynhp.org/bba/ Left click on the block you are interested in and then click on request sign-up. Only the blocks in gray are available for you to be a principal atlaser. The role of the principal atlaser is to make sure over the next 5 breeding seasons that the following is completed for your block: - 20+ hours of daytime birding
- 2+ hours of nocturnal birding - 55-95+ species reported (highly variable throughout the state) - 50% of reported species marked as ‘Confirmed’ - Visits in 3+ times of year (e.g., April, June, July) - All accessible habitats in a block are visited IMPORTANT: Other birders can contribute to any block!! As a principal atlaser, you don't have to do it all nor should you. That is what is different this time around. Other birders who submit through the NYBBA portal are contributing. All you need to know about NY's BBAIII project can be found on this website: https://ebird.org/atlasny/about I highly recommend looking through this. Any questions let me know. I would like to do more workshops and more importantly lead some BBA walks this June but we can't at this point due to COVID-19. I am trying to find the best way to do at least do more virtual workshops. Best and stay well,David NicosiaNY BBAIII Central Region Coordinator. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
