Greetings, Yesterday the third annual State of the Birds Report (2011) was released in Washington, D.C. at an event featuring Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar and Agriculture Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment Harris Sherman. This year’s report highlights the enormous importance of public lands for bird conservation in the United States.
Much of this report is the direct result of contributions of birders who enter their data into eBird. Analysis of eBird data served as the foundation for the report and highlights the type of contributions that we can make as individual birders when we come together as a community. You can read and download the entire report including the methods of analyzing eBird data at the link below (Link on the left that says "Our Approach"). There are also links to many of the maps used in compiling the results. I encourage you to visit the site, read the report, browse the amazing data, and consider the potential for further breakthroughs as eBird data continue to multiply and analysis techniques grow ever more sophisticated. http://www.stateofthebirds.org/ Also in the report was the following "Thank You to eBird Volunteers" "Our understanding of bird distributions has greatly improved thanks to the thousands of bird watchers who have contributed observations to eBird (www.eBird.org). This effort is especially important for tracking seasonal and fine-scale changes in bird distributions, which is not possible with other bird-monitoring programs. However, even this massive observation network provides only imperfect information for assessing the year-round status of birds on many remote public lands across the U.S., including Alaska, Hawaii, and island territories. We urge birders to submit more observations to eBird from public refuges, parks, forests, and wilderness areas. We also urge agencies to support the submission of current and historical records to eBird and other data archives." I hope that this report shows just the beginning of what we can accomplish by sharing our observations in eBird and making them available to the global community of researchers, educators, and people working to conserve birds and their habitats. To all of you who use eBird, thank you for making your bird observations make a difference. If you haven't used eBird in a while or never used it, it's never too soon to make eBird a habit. http://ebird.org/ Thank you, Chris Wood & Team eBird eBird & Neotropical Birds Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York http://ebird.org http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
