This is Bird Note.

E-bird, an online tool for submitting bird observations, allow scientists to keep track of birds

around the world.

E-bird now has over one billion bird observations for more than 700,000 people. Most of them,

community scientists who care about their local birds. And as more people in more places join in,

Ebert becomes an even better way for researchers to understand birds.

To make your birding more helpful to science, you can look up local parks on eBird,

often listed as birding hotspots on the site, and see if they're getting visited enough.

Do people post-checklists there every day day or just once every couple weeks?

Consider giving those less visited parks some attention.

If a hotspot has too few eBird checklists for a certain time of year,

Ebert can't estimate which birds are there at that time.

Submitting checklists during those times can help EBRD fill in the gaps. In some cases, a good spot

for birds might not even have an eBird hotspot yet. In that case, you can recommend that

place as a hotspot for eBird reviewers to consider. With more dedicated people pitching into

community science projects such as eBird, we'll know even more about how to protect our birds.

Learn more on our website, birdnote.org.

I'm Ariana Rimmel.