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A New “eBird Festival” Elevates Bird Conservation in the Pacific Northwest
9 April 2014
Birding festivals are growing in popularity across the world, and increasingly these community events are becoming “eBird Festivals.” eBird festivals use eBird to track the many birds seen on the field trips offered during these events celebrating birds and birding.  eBird Festivals also provide outreach, promoting the use of eBird by helping festival attendees set up their own eBird accounts and by providing information about the powerful data entry and exploration tools offered by eBird.  By integrating eBird within festival activities these eBird Festivals are building on a significant opportunity for the birding community to contribute to the science that drives conservation worldwide.
Migration watch–The April Zeiss eBirder of the Month challenge
1 April 2014
This month’s eBirder of the month challenge, sponsored by Carl Zeiss Sports Optic, focuses on migration birding. April is an amazing month for migration around the world. Right now, our team from eBird is in the midst of one of the world’s most amazing bird migration spectacles in Israel, competing with the world’s best birders to raise conservation dollars in the Champions of the Flyway competition. While migration is most visible at these great concentration points, many birds move in a broad front across the continent during April, and birders everywhere can do a great job of capturing this by entering their data into eBird. The idea behind this competition is to look for signs on visible migration at your favorite birding sites by conducting stationary counts of at least 1 hour duration, and recording all high flying migrants as ‘fly-overs’ on each checklist you submit. Any eBirder who submits at least one 1-hr stationary count will be entered into this competition. Winners will be notified by the 10th of the following month. Read on to find out more.
Cornell Lab eBirders head to Israel for Champions of the Flyway
25 March 2014
Champions of the Flyway is a major new international bird race taking place in Eilat, Israel – one of the world’s most spectacular migration hot spots and rewarding birding destinations. Competing teams from around the world will try to find, identify and log as many species as possible – as they go head to head in an intense 24 hour contest to win the coveted title “Champions of the Flyway”. While the race will be fun, the goal is serious – to raise conservation funding that will help BirdLife International tackle the illegal killing of birds in Southern and Eastern Europe. We are pleased to be attending to  highlight the challenges that migratory birds face in southern and eastern Eur