How eBirding Helps Conservation

Discover a new world of birding with eBird, a free resource for recording and sharing observations, which is transforming science and conservation efforts across the globe.

Birds capture the human spirit, our imagination and our passion in a way that few other organisms do. They also serve as the most accessible and sensitive indicator of ecosystem health and climate change. Never before have we had as great an opportunity to bring together people from around the world to monitor and understand our natural world – simply by watching birds. Already, nearly 1 million people around the world have taken part in reporting observations to eBird, managed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Using advanced techniques at the interface of computer science and statistics, there are now unprecedented insights into the distribution, abundance and population trends of birds on global and local scales. This data has the power to greatly inform conservation – we’ll look at how they’re being used to help birds around the world.

This program is a collaboration with the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy.

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