- https://mushroomobserver.org - crowdsourced database for mushrooms.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/observations - plants and animals.
eBird: A crowdsourced bird sighting database
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#12Cornell is the most definitive source for a lot of this kind of thing.
Good show!
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#13eBird powers the annual "Great Backyard Bird Count"
Mark your calendars for the next event on February 12-15, 2021
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#14Live bird migration maps using active radar:
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#15More like crow-sourced amirite
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#16This looks so cool. I am casually interested in bird watching, especially being able to identify them via their songs. However the moment I click to "explore" it requires a login. Yet-another login to manage before I am get to sample the data... window closed. I am not their target demo anyway.
If you're interested in learning to ID birds by ear, check out Larkwire[1][2]. (Full disclosure: it's my app.) I can attest that knowing what you're hearing is really a delightful way to expand one's connection to nature!
[1] iOS app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/larkwire-learn-bird-songs/id54... [2] web app: https://www.larkwire.com
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#17Does anyone else struggle with counting individual birds? I talk myself out of submitting a checklist to the "Great Backyard Bird Count" like every year because I worry I'm double counting birds and will mess up their data. When you have a bunch of feeders and live halfway in the woods it becomes an issue of: are there 20 mourning doves or 30? 40 finches or 50?
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#18I do a bit of wildlife photography in my spare time (follow me on Insta for pictures of British birds and occasionally my cat - https://instagram.com/onion4k). Recognising birds is surprisingly hard. A lot of them have very subtle differences that can't be spotted easily. For example, telling the difference between a common Thrush[1] and a much less common Redwing[2] is a real challenge. It's a fun and challenging problem to train yourself to do.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_thrush#/media/File:Turdus... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwing#/media/File:Redwing_Tu...
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#19Does anyone else struggle with counting individual birds? I talk myself out of submitting a checklist to the "Great Backyard Bird Count" like every year because I worry I'm double counting birds and will mess up their data. When you have a bunch of feeders and live halfway in the woods it becomes an issue of: are there 20 mourning doves or 30? 40 finches or 50?
I thought they had articles and videos on how to count the birds. Like with the purple martins. How do you count hundreds of thousands of birds? Or bees?
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#20- https://mushroomobserver.org - crowdsourced database for mushrooms. - https://www.inaturalist.org/observations - plants and animals.
https://bugguide.net - this one is awesome. has photo submissions for identifications