This month’s eBirder of the Month problem, sponsored by ZEISS, highlights the worth of splitting your day of birding into a number of lists. Each time you might be birding, it is very important create new checklists for every habitat you go to, after 3 hours in a single location, or after masking 5 miles. Maintaining separate lists for every distinct place you go to makes a giant distinction in how your sightings might be beneficial for fellow birders, researchers, and in your personal reminiscences sooner or later.
The eBirder of the Month can be drawn from eBirders who submit 3 or extra eligible checklists in a single day in August. Every day that you simply submit 3 or extra eligible checklists offers you one probability to win. That’s as much as 31 probabilities to win!
You might be questioning when to cease a guidelines and begin a brand new one. A superb rule of thumb in the event you’re driving between birding areas is to begin your guidelines if you get out of the automobile and cease the record if you get again in. Even in the event you’re simply stopping at every place for a couple of minutes, these shorter lists are extremely impactful! Normally, the extra exact the record (shorter distance and length), the extra beneficial the data. You possibly can be taught extra about greatest practices and how one can make your eBirding simpler by means of our eBird Necessities course.
August’s winner will obtain a brand new ZEISS SFL 8×40 binocular and can be notified by the tenth of the next month.
Every month we are going to characteristic a brand new eBird problem and set of choice standards. And don’t overlook to submit lists for the 2024 Guidelines-a-day Problem!
ZEISS is a confirmed chief in sports activities optics and is the official optics sponsor for eBird. “We’re thrilled to proceed our partnership with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and help the important scientific knowledge being collected by devoted eBirders.” – Richard Moncrief, Birding and Nature Remark Section Supervisor at ZEISS
