MDBirding,
After the heavy sensitive species post, I wanted to post a follow-up on a
completely different and very cheery note.
I encourage everyone to check out this brand new eBird feature:
http://ebird.org/ebird/livesubs.
Maryland is truly one of the leading states in the eBird family and enjoys
wide usage statewide (although there is always some new birder to introduce
to eBird or some old-timer who still hasn't been taught the new
technology).
I'd like to personally thank everyone who has helped to make eBird the
success that it has been, from each person who has ever submitted a
checklist to those of you who have mentioned eBird to a friend or shared a
checklist with them.
I'd especially like to publicly thank Tyler, Bill, Ron, Rob, Jim, Matt and
the rest of the Maryland eBird review team, as well as Mike Bowen and Mike
Ostrowski who help with Maryland hotspots. Behind-the-scenes management at
eBird is a volunteer position with a salary of exactly zero dollars and
zero cents. It is sometimes contentious and often thankless. But eBird
would not function without it and certainly would not maintain the growing
scientific credibility that is currently receives. Thanks to all of you,
from the bottom of the heart of "eBird corporate".
Those of us at eBird love to sit and watch submissions roll in on that live
submissions map, and to imagine what it might be like 5 years from now and
how that might inform our knowledge of bird migration and our understanding
of bird conservation in new and important ways.
I hope you all enjoy it too, since you all share in the credit every time a
new yellow explosion appears on the map!
Good (e)Birding,
Marshall Iliff
(a.k.a. the born-and-raised in Annapolis currently-trapped-in-Massachusetts
guy that is insanely jealous of those that have Tufted Duck, Say's Phoebe,
Black-throated Gray Warbler, White-winged Dove, and especially Northern
Lapwing on their Maryland state and year lists)
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Marshall J. Iliff
miliff AT aol.com
West Roxbury, MA
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eBird/AKN Project Leader
www.ebird.org
www.avianknowledge.net
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Ithaca, NY
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