BS: eBird Canada, for Canadian Birdwatchers

Subject: BS: eBird Canada, for Canadian Birdwatchers
From: ragdall
Date: 07 Nov 06 - 08:26 PM

From my birdlist mail:
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Subject: [bcbirds] eBird Canada launched today!

Dear Birders:

Bird Studies Canada launched eBird Canada today at the web site www.ebird.ca. This is a Canadian version of the popular Cornell Lab of Ornithology program begun in 2002 and significantly upgraded in 2005. eBird is an on-line bird sightings database where you can enter your sightings through custom checklists, then view the results of yours and other eBirders' contributions through maps, graphs and tables. The geographical extent of the database now covers Canada, the United States, Mexico and parts of the Caribbean; future plans include the rest of Latin America.

More than 6 million records are submitted annually to eBird and the Canadian part of the database includes more than 400,000 records. This total is climbing rapidly, especially since a bulk upload tool was developed. This tool allows anyone to upload records from bird sightings databases in almost any format, including AviSys, BirdBase, Excel, and Access. Contact me for more details! The eBird database also includes records from club projects such as the Northwest Territories & Nunavut Checklist Project, the Squamish Estuary Conservation Society's monthly counts, regular censuses at Maplewood Flats and migration monitoring totals at the Vaseux Lake Bird Observatory.

Please pass this message on to anyone who may be interested.

Check it out at www.ebird.ca!

Regards
Dick Cannings
Bird Studies Canada - Études d'Oiseaux Canada
eBird Canada

Subject: RE: BS: eBird Canada, for Canadian Birdwatchers
From: Bee
Date: 07 Nov 06 - 09:02 PM

Thank you so much for this.

Subject: RE: BS: eBird Canada, for Canadian Birdwatchers
From: Beer
Date: 07 Nov 06 - 09:07 PM

Ragall,
This is great news. Thanks for sharing.
Beer

Subject: RE: BS: eBird Canada, for Canadian Birdwatchers
From: bobad
Date: 07 Nov 06 - 09:19 PM

A valuable and fun project, will be participating - thanks for the heads up.

Subject: RE: BS: eBird Canada, for Canadian Birdwatchers
From: Mooh
Date: 08 Nov 06 - 09:23 AM

Fantastic! I've sent it around to interested folks. Thanks!

Peace, Mooh.