This web page explains / demonstrates how to utilize an eBird species map. By learning this process you will be able to determine the location and frequency that a given type of bird is being seen.
While no eBird account is required, submitting bird sightings will help researches better understand what is happening to our bird population. Please read this news release and study from Audubon about the world wide population of birds. The population trends are horrible … think of the “canary in a coal mine scenario where planet earth is the coal mine.
- Audubon Press Release: 2/3 of North American Birds at Risk of Extinction
- Survival (or death) by Degrees … A Study of 389 Bird Species
Snowy Owl Species Sightings Distribution Map
Screen #1 is the very first image you will see upon browsing to the web page linked immediately above this point. The subsequent screenshots and annotation explain how one may use one aspect of eBird, a species map.
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You may have noticed all my screenshots have the label Wisconsin eBird while I live in Minnesota. The explanation is simple. Wisconsin has an active bird population study in which I am participating.