Hi Folks,
We hope that you've been enjoying a restful and bird-filled holiday
season. The winter months are flying by and it is already time for us to
start thinking about the upcoming *4th season of the VA Breeding Bird Atlas
Project*.
During the off-season, we've been busily working on plans and strategies to
meet the goals of this ambitious project over our final two breeding
seasons. Throughout few months, we will be sharing more information and
guidance about how volunteers can be most impactful with their
birding/atlasing time.
For now, we wanted to remind folks about resources pertaining to our *earliest
breeding bird species*. Members of the Atlas Facebook group (
https://www.facebook.com/groups/VABBA2/) will know that breeding reports of
Great-horned Owl and Bald Eagle are rolling in. Don't forget that these
observations should go into the Atlas eBird portal (
https://ebird.org/atlasva/home), so that your breeding evidence
observations make it in to the BBA database.
Here are a few articles with useful info about early-breeding species...
- Atlasing After Dark
<https://ebird.org/atlasva/news/atlasing-after-dark-an-introduction-to-nocturnal-surveys>
- American Woodcock, the Forest Species Few Have Seen
<https://ebird.org/atlasva/news/american-woodcock-the-forest-species-few-have-seen>
- The Early Bird: Great Horned Owls
<https://ebird.org/atlasva/news/the-early-bird-great-horned-owls>
Stay warm and happy birding!
Ashley Peele, PhD
Virginia Breeding Bird Atlas Coordinator
Conservation Management Institute - Virginia Tech
Office: 540-231-9182
Fax: 540-231-7019
