EBird

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Why use eBird

To borrow a phase from the eBird website, each bird observation you make is a piece of a puzzle. Nothing is more frustrating then to be missing a piece of a puzzle, and if you don't have enough pieces you can't even get close to finishing it. The eBird database is the box that holds all these pieces. If enough birders but their pieces in the box we can figure out a lot more puzzles in the bird world.

When we started the Texas Century Club there were over 40 counties in Texas with no records in eBird, and many had almost no records. Glasscock County used to be the poster child for a county that was really out of the way. Miles from a major highways and not really on the way to anywhere with only 9,000 residents it sat on the edge of the Edwards Plateau with no records for the longest time. No records until a Century Cluber went there because we knew so little. Now there are more than 140 species reported for Glasscock County.

How do I get started with eBird?

How to get your existing records into eBird

I don't have complete records for my birds, can I still put them in eBird?

Yes! while eBird is set up to accept the bird, date, and the time for a record, eBird does have a protocol for entering a baseline lifelist for a county