Speaker: Richard Alcorn (Geelong Field Naturalists Club), "eBird Data Explorations". Combined meeting with Birdlife Castlemaine District.
Uniting Church Chapel, Lyttleton St.
With backgrounds in computer programming and a passion for recording bird observations, Richard and Margaret Alcorn developed the world’s first on-line bird atlassing system called Eremaea Birds, launched in 2003. This proved very successful and after 10 years it was merged with eBird, a global database managed by the Cornell Lab. of Ornithology, US.
In this talk, Richard will show us what can be learnt about bird movements and trends using citizen science data from eBird with many interesting examples and insights from the Geelong and Castlemaine regions.
Observations: Members and visitors are invited to share their recent interesting observations at the meeting. Please email any photos as uncropped JPEG file(s) and supporting notes to Jill Williams (jilliwill33@gmail.com) by noon on the day of the meeting.