Last week, Hurricane Helene spun north into western North Carolina causing catastrophic damage, particularly in the Asheville area and surrounding counties. Entire homes and businesses were flooded, ...

In July 1992, two Danish birders visiting Patagonia, Arizona reported the first-ever, mega-rare cinnamon hummingbird in the United States. Back then, reporting rare birds required phoning in ...

Using ebird, will make you a better birder. Its free, it’s fun, and you will be contributing significant data, used by scientists to study population trends and migration in North American and around ...

Many factors impacted the number of verified Maine sightings of the Steller's sea eagle – which usually winter's in Russia – but they account for 34.7% of eBird records on the species. The Steller’s ...

ITHACA, N.Y. - Millions of people donate billions of dollars' worth of their time to citizen-science projects each year. While these efforts have broadened our understanding of everything from birds ...

A new article shows a blueprint for conserving enough habitat to protect the populations of almost one-third of the warblers, orioles, tanagers, and other birds that migrate among the Americas ...

WSFA - When the Alabama Ornithological Society met recently for its winter meeting at Lake Guntersville State Park, the focus was on the huge numbers of wintering ducks and geese to be seen at Lake ...

Holly Merker’s eyes are constantly on the tree tops. During a outing to the John Heinz Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum on the outskirts of Philadelphia, her small frame is bogged down by more gear than a ...

Using ebird, will make you a better birder. Its free, it’s fun, and you will be contributing significant data, used by scientists to study population trends and migration in North American and around ...

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I used to keep handwritten notes in the field on bird observations and then enter those notes into a computer program such as BirdBase or Avisys at home. I still do that, but I am also using ebird ...