How to use eBird Workshop
July 21 @ 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
July 21 6:30 – 8 (presentation)
July 22 6:30 – 8 (field practice; optional)
Free, but registration is required.
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In the modern day birding world, eBird is an omnipresent tool. A platform for submitting useful data, tracking your bird observations, and exploring the bird diversity in your region, eBird is both powerful and daunting. Join Sam Darmstadt on this introduction to using eBird, which will prepare you to submit checklists according to eBird best practices, explore other users’ sightings to help you find birds, and navigate around the eBird website.
The first session will be a presentation on the evening of Monday July 21st. During that time we will spend an hour going over the basics of using the eBird website and app, with plenty of time for Q&A afterwards. You are encouraged to bring a smartphone and a tablet or laptop to follow along while we learn to navigate the eBird website.
The second, optional session will be a practice session with eBird outside on the evening of Tuesday, July 22nd. We will go over how to use the eBird and Merlin mobile apps to record sightings during a birding outing, followed by some time exploring the checklist we just made on the eBird website.
About the Instructor:Sam Damstadt is a keen birder, naturalist, and guide raised in Vermont where his passion for nature was developed thanks to ample opportunity to explore the outdoors. After graduating from Brandeis University, Sam worked as a field tech in remote areas of North America including the boreal forests of Ontario and the Alaskan interior, the High Sierras of California, and several remote islands in the north Pacific – Middleton Island, Southeast Farallon Island, and Saint Paul Island. In between these stints of closely studying the fascinating bird life of these unique locations, Sam helped lead trips both domestically and abroad. He is now a partner and guide at FlyAway Birding along with his dad. Sam’s favorite birds are seabirds and shorebirds and his go-to birding destination is anywhere close to the poles.
