[TN-Bird] Bird Phenology Program

From: "David Aborn" <David-Aborn@xxxxxxx>
To: "TN-Bird" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:06:42 -0400
26 March 2009

There is a CNN story today about a little known citizen science program that
ran for nearly 100 years. It was the Bird Phenology Program, and birders
from across the country recorded data about the abundance, arrival,
departure and location of certain species. The note cards were then send to
the US Fish and Wildlife Service, which has maintained them, even after the
program ended in 1970. The USFWS, with the help of volunteers, is now
scanning those cards (6 million of them!) and is putting them online. This
is an incredible amount of information describing bird distributions,
migration time and migration pathways, and how they are changing. The
program website has information about how you can catalog the information.
The story can be found at
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/03/26/pp.bird.usgs/index.html, and Bird
Phenology Program can be found at http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bpp/ 

David Aborn
Chattanooga, TN

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