This is the final webinar in our Your Data Is for the Birds series!

eBird is an online community science project managed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society for birders to record and share their bird sightings. The project acts as a global database of bird observations, used by both amateur birders and professional scientists to track bird populations and distribution. Originally focused on the Western Hemisphere, eBird has expanded to include the entire world, making it a truly global database.  Birders use eBird to create personal checklists and note time and location of sightings, and scientists aggregate, analyze, and visualize these same data through maps, charts, and other tools, helping them track bird populations, migration patterns, and more. Thus, the data collected by eBird are used by scientists, researchers, and conservation organizations to understand and protect bird populations. Learn how this free and accessible program makes it easy for anyone to participate and contribute to bird conservation. 

Speaker Dr, Douglas Robinson

W. Douglas Robinson is Professor of Wildlife Science and Curator of Birds at Oregon State University. He is Chief Editor of the academic journal Frontiers in Bird Science. Doug states that birds are his  expertise, vocation, and avocation. He studies wild birds to understand how and why they respond to environmental change, as well as why they live their lives in the ways they do. Doug is committed to establishing benchmarks of biodiversity to help future generations truly understand how bird populations change through time. To that end, he is one the world’s top contributors to the citizen science database, eBird.

This webinar is FREE, but pre-registration is required.