eBird is a real-time, online bird checklist program hosted by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Bird-submitted checklists provide rich data for basic information on bird abundance and distribution at a variety of spatial and temporal scales. The vast numbers of bird observations made each year by recreational and professional bird watchers feed into a global-scale database that helps inform conservation science. It is amassing one of the largest and fastest growing biodiversity data resources in existence.
The observations of each participant join those of others in an international network of eBird users. eBird then shares these observations with a global community of educators, land managers, ornithologists, and conservation biologists. In time these data will become the foundation for a better understanding of bird distribution across the western hemisphere and beyond.
This information was adapted from www.ebird.org/about.
See our Go Birding page for more information, or visit ebird.org.