Ross's Geese
eBird
Birding With a PurposeContributed by John Alexander
O to see like an eagle by day,
To hear like an owl in the dark,
To taste like a gull the salt spray,
To feel the air's lift like a lark!
- Joel Peters, Wishing
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Ross's Geese |
eBirdBirding With a PurposeContributed by John Alexander |
O to see like an eagle by day, To hear like an owl in the dark, To taste like a gull the salt spray, To feel the air's lift like a lark! - Joel Peters, Wishing |
As many bird populations continue to decline, local birders' data are more important than ever. Manage your birding data and explore the birds of our region at our own regional eBird node. Become part of the Avian Knowledge Network today!
Klamath-Siskiyou eBird (www.eBird.org/Klamath-Siskiyou).
The Rogue Valley Audubon Society leads a regional Audubon collaboration, working with the Redwood Regional and Klamath Basin chapters, to support Klamath Bird Observatory and Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology efforts to empower citizen scientists for bird conservation.
The Klamath-Siskiyou eBird is an easy to use tool for organizing your birding data. Keep track of your life lists and county lists. Enter data from any location in the Americas. Enjoy exploring the birds in the Klamath-Siskiyou Bioregion and contributing to science and conservation.
Why should I eBIRD?
Every time that you see and identify a bird, you are holding a piece of a puzzle. Whether you are casually watching birds in your backyard, or chasing rare species across the country, you are helping to put this puzzle together.
It might be a personal puzzle. For example, you might wonder when Red-winged Blackbirds appear in your backyard each spring or what time of day the Mourning Doves take a bath in your neighborhood fountain. Each time that you see and identify one of these birds-so long as you note the time and date-one piece of the puzzle falls into place.
Unfortunately, just like puzzle pieces, these observations lose their value if they remain separate from one another. The only way that all these bird sightings make a contribution to our understanding of nature is when they are collected and organized into a central database where they can help complete a picture of the life of birds. Check out the Klamath-Siskiyou eBird and see for yourself.
eBird is this database. With thousands of birdwatchers across the continent helping to construct it by contributing their sightings, eBird will soon become a vast source of bird and environmental information useful to bird watchers, scientists and conservationists the world over.
By keeping track of your bird observations and entering them into the Klamath-Siskiyou eBird database, you'll benefit too. You can access your own bird records anytime you want, allowing you an easy way to look at your observations in new ways and to answer your personal questions about what birds you saw and when and where you saw them. Keep your year list, site list, or life list on the site.
If you use the Klamath-Siskiyou eBird web site (www.eBird.org/Klamath-Siskiyou) to enter all your birding information-and get your friends, family members, students, and colleagues to use it as well-before long the answers to the never-ending questions about birds will be found in the eBird database, for use now and for generations that will follow.
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