nature calgary bird study group presentation - november 2012

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Bird Study Group

07 November 2012


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Nature Calgary November meeting

Fort Calgary, 21 November

7:30 pm

A Season of Wildflowers in

Southern Alberta, photos and

discussion with Neil Jennings


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Next Bird Study Group Meeting

Wednesday, 5 December, 7:30pm


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2012 Christmas

Bird Count Be a part of the 61st

Annual Calgary Count

Sunday 16th

December


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Main Presentation

Technology in Birding

What technology is out there?

How is it useful to the birding community?

Why would I want to use it?


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eBirdWhat is eBird?

- Online checklist database to

store and share bird sightings

Why should I use it?- Because SCIENCE!

- Species distribution research

- Population studies- Breeding Bird Atlas

- Migration patterns

What about all my old lists?- eBird can import lists from

spreadshets

- Old paper lists can be entered

quickly and easily

- Old lists are incredibly useful

for establishing historical data

sets


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eBirding LocallyAndrew Slater

- eBird Quality Control

monitor for Alberta (clarify)

-Approached by DickCannings in 2004/2005 to

monitor and investigate

sightings for the region- Now, all his sightings are

recorded in eBird

eBird Monitoring

- Quality Control for use in

scientific research

- Not a policing measure, asdisputed sightings remain on

year/life lists

Local eBirders

- many eBird users in and

around the Calgary Area


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The Science of eBird

Fink, Daniel; et al. (2010). "Spatiotemporal exploratory models forbroad-scale survey data". Ecological Applications20 (8): 21312147.

Hurlbert, Allen H.; Liang, Zhongei (February 2012),

"Spatiotemporal Variation in Avian Migration Phenology: Citizen

Science Reveals Effects of Climate Change", PLoS ONE7 (2):e31662


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BirdlogAvailable for Android and iPhone,

iPad, iPod Touch.

Personal locations and eBird

Hotspots


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BirdlogLikely All Effort


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Interactive Field GuidesiBird Audubon Sibley

Format Both Photos Drawings

Species ~700 ~800 ~800

Sounds Yes Yes Yes

eBird? No Yes No

Cost $9.99 $9.99 $19.99


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Identification Practice Tools

BirdJam

Uses songs from Stokes CDs

Creates image based playlists based

on family, habitat etc.

Larkwire

Game format for learning birdsong

3-9 songs per species

Records your progress and makes

suggestions for further practice


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Social Media

AlbertaBird (Yahoo! Groups)

Listserv for rarities and general information

sharing

750 members since January 2000

(Facebook)

Group for discussion and photo sharing

209 members since May 2012
http://www.facebook.com/groups/318242134926755/


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Social Media

Other Facebook Groups of note

Birders Who Blog, Tweet and Chirp

ABA Area Rare Birds

Photo sharing site
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ubermoogle/


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Alberta Bird Blogs Birds Calgary,

Dan Arndt, Bob Lefebvre, Matt Sim, Pat Bumstead

Bird Canada,

Pat Bumstead

Calgary Birder, David Pugh

Prairie Birder,

Charlotte Wasylik

Fur and Feathers 500,

Brian Elder, Ray Woods, Phil Cram, Mike Mulligan
http://canadafurandfeathers.blogspot.ca/http://prairiebirder.wordpress.com/http://calgarybirder.blogspot.com/http://www.birdcanada.com/http://birdscalgary.wordpress.com/


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Essential North American Blogs

10,000 Birds,

Birding is Fun

American Birding Association, Sibley Guides,
http://www.sibleyguides.com/http://blog.aba.org/http://www.birdingisfun.com/http://10000birds.com/

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