12 March 2024
It’s server migration season on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
For 2 days subsequent week these Cornell Lab of Ornithology providers can be down as they migrate from native servers to the cloud.
The next Cornell Lab providers can be unavailable beginning 6am ET March 19 till 6am ET March 21:
- eBird.org, together with eBird portals and electronic mail Alerts
- eBird API and knowledge merchandise
- Merlin Chicken ID save sightings and refresh life listing (solely current places can be obtainable for ID and Discover)
- BirdCast alerts and migration dashboard
- Macaulay Library
- Birds of the World
- Chicken Academy
Additionally, you will not have the ability to entry any applications that require logging in together with your Cornell Lab account through the outage.
— Workforce eBird information, Upcoming Upkeep: Cornell Lab Companies Will Be Unavailable 19-21 March
I do know from private expertise in Info Expertise that there’s actually no good time to do a server migration and it all the time takes longer than customers need it to. Cornell Lab says they’re migrating 1.6 billion fowl observations and that if it goes rather well some providers could also be up late on 20 March.
Through the outage eBird will nonetheless work in your cell phone in offline mode. This function was constructed into the app way back as a result of the most effective birds are distant from cell towers.
So dangle tight whereas Cornell Lab knowledge goes into hiding for 2 days.
Learn extra at Workforce eBird information: Upcoming Upkeep: Cornell Lab Companies Will Be Unavailable 19-21 March.
(black-winged stilts picture from Wikimedia Commons; logos from Cornell Lab of Ornithology; eBird screenshot from my cell phone)
