[wisb] Re: GBBC & eBird
- From: Owen Boyle <odboyle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:20:00 -0600
Great questions Sue. The guys at Team eBird ask that you do both:
http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/great-backyard-bird-count
eBird has a different way of defining the location that you birded, the
type of observation you made, and doesn't currently have the option to
define habitat types for your checklists (though this feature may be
coming in the future). The last is a very important component of the GBBC.
So even though we submit checklists for the same birds to both projects,
they won't be double counted when researchers analyze the data. They'll
be examining different questions with eBird data and with GBBC data.
Though it means a little more work for us to enter the same data for
multiple projects, it's very important for each project that we do so.
Wisconsin is currently #7 in the total number of birds reported
(>56,000) over the first two days of the GBBC but doesn't appear in the
top ten list of states for number of checklists. Let's change that folks!
Speaking of which, I need to enter some checklists...
Owen Boyle
WI eBird Team
Milwaukee
On 2/18/2012 2:15 PM, Sue Peterson wrote:
> A question: I send in checklists to eBird. I also have sent lists to Great
> Backyard Bird Count. Both forms appear to be collecting similar data on same
> dates. And are run by the same agencies. Will my data be overlapping? Or, in
> the future, could the eBird data collected on the GBBC weekend just be sent
> to GBBC by wi eBird? Just wondering.
> Sue Peterson
> Door Co.
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