When: Sunday, January 12, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Where: National Wildlife Federation Building, 11100 Wildlife Center Drive, Reston, VA 20190 Fee: FREE
Join us Sunday, January 12, for our quarterly Alliance Afternoon. We will gather informally starting at 2:30 PM in the cafeteria of the National Wildlife Federation Building, 11100 Wildlife Center Drive, in Reston. We welcome you to bring snacks and drinks to share. All are welcome!
At 3:00 PM we will have a guest speaker. Will Brooks will describe how he used eBird data to study birds on glaciers, an enigmatic ecosystem, and birds lost offshore, a rarely observed event. The eBird app has transformed birding and promises to do the same for ornithological research. With 930,000 users and 1.6 billion bird observations, eBird captures rarely observed events that would have been missed by the few observers in a more traditional study. Ebird records, made possible by birders, give researchers the opportunity to tackle new scientific questions, producing new findings. Based on these studies and his perspective as a birder, Brooks will provide tips on how you can make your eBirding more useful for science.
FREE! All are welcome. Registration is not required, but you may wish to register to get a reminder about this program.
