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eBird Weather: RainCrow Q&A

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I have always assumed that scientific researchers can overlay weather information on checklists for their research, but absent manual entry, that such information would not be available to me. I want to help environmental and research organizations create more useful tools and resources.

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Birding Argentina – Planning Stage

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Planning for such a whirlwind tour became a monstrous research task. There are more advanced models but I am not sure of their benefits; more research needed for my next trip. And so we began to carefully plan a very busy schedule so we could cover all the birding hot spots that we could find.

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Return of the Waders

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In Europe, most of them winter south of the Sahara but an increasing share winters north of it – which sounds like an interesting research topic for people who, ahem, find such topics interesting. It is rumored that one of the researchers later became a software developer.

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The Agony and Ecstasy of Surrendering to eBird

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For many years now, I’ve resisted every form of listing software available, choosing instead to maintain my world and ABA life lists on a simple Excel spreadsheet. A contemptuous lack of suggested locations to match the ones submitted forced me to research literally hundreds of locations in the U.S I blame Nate Swick.

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“Birds of Cyprus” field guide review

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His work in Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey remains inspirational to researchers throughout the region. are applied using digital tools (a computer, a graphics tablet and stylus, and software), digital painting is aggressively taking over the field guide scene. Defined as an art form in which traditional painting techniques (e.g.

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The Warbler Guide: A Book Review by a Warbler-challenged Birder

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Donald Kroodsma employs them in his books about bird song; the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology promotes them and offers a link to Raven Lite , free software that allows you to visualize sound. I have to make a librarian note about the research paper citations–where are the years of publication? Using sonograms is not new.

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Collaborative list – December 2018

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A big thank you must also go to eBird whose listing software makes it possible. Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). So please keep at it and keep sending me your shared checklists.

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