An excellent workshop talk today by Ian Davies and Tom Auer from the Cornell University. A range of information to showcase how eBird data informs our understanding of species distribution, status and population trends.
I have been adding my local data to the eBird site for some years now to share with the birding community. This also safeguards data for the future. One of the interesting aspects raised in the talk was to include audio recordings when uploading to eBird as these can be used to build identification of species in an associated App called Merlin which is useful for bird identification.
A big thankyou to Ian Mclean (BirdsNZ Auckland Regional Representative) for organizing this event and also to the Auckland Council staff for hosting at the Ambury Regional Park Centre.