This is a private event. Please reach out to me if you are interested in hosting an eBird workshop like this in your community.
Join us for a half-day workshop on using eBird, an online platform and smartphone application that turns your bird observations into real-time data that can provide scientists, researchers, landowners, and communities with information on bird distribution and abundance.
We’ll start indoors with an overview of eBird and what it does, exploring the online website together and learning how to set up an account, search for specific birds, and look at data on birding hotspots in our communities. We’ll then head outside to do a little birding together and learn how to use the eBird smartphone app to document what we’re observing in real-time. We’ll also use the Merlin app to identify birds by sight and sound and learn how eBird and Merlin are connected.
The workshop will be led by Bird Diva, Bridget Butler who has used eBird personally and professionally since 2004. Bridget oversees the Birder Broker project in Vermont which uses eBird to document breeding birds on private lands with the help of birders and landowners. She also serves on the Vermont Bird Records Committee and is on the board of the Green Mountain Audubon Chapter.
Participants should dress for time outdoors, bring their own charged cell-phone, and binoculars if they have them. Bridget will be able to provide binoculars for up to 10 participants.