RTPI Bird Fest 2014
Thanks to all who joined us for RTPI Bird Fest 2014! All four excursions featured some lovely surprises and great company. This shot of some of our group yesterday morning at Akeley Swamp IBA shows RTPI President Twan Leenders pointing and trip leader Don Watts scoping, perhaps at the recently hatched Hooded Mergansers we observed. Special thanks to Don, Jim Berry, Tim Baird and Terry Mosher for giving us their time and knowledge to lead the trips. We’ll show you our finds and photos this week…
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As we enter 2014 there is no better time than to declare yourself a citizen scientist for the New Year. Make the resolution now please and start your journey by eBirding all of your sightings on New Year’s Day and every day you can thereafter. For those who do not know eBird it is essentially a protected database of avian observations from around the world that is fully searchable by the public, completely free, and intended to last forever to be used by scientists anywhere on Earth. Our collective efforts help to fuel this conservation machine and their maps, graphs, and tables allow...
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