Birding is centered on connections: connecting to at least one’s self, connecting to nature, and connecting to others. This month’s eBirder of the Month problem, sponsored by ZEISS, is all about birding collectively. This might be a day within the discipline with a long-time birding good friend with whom you’ve been checking a neighborhood patch for 30 years, or getting out with somebody who’s simply beginning. It might be with an present eBirder or an birder who hasn’t began eBirding but. The eBirder of the Month will probably be drawn from eBirders who submit 20 eligible shared checklists throughout November. Every shared guidelines that you just’re part of counts in the direction of qualifying for the problem. These lists might be shared with you from one other particular person or shared from you to another person—the one requirement is that every one folks on the shared guidelines had been part of the birding occasion. These checklists have to be entered, shared, and accepted by the final day of the month with a view to qualify for the drawing.
We hope that you should utilize this guidelines sharing problem as inspiration to get out within the discipline with fellow birders. Introduce somebody to eBird. Join with a birding buddy at your favourite hotspot. Take a stroll on the native park along with your children, or submit in your native birding electronic mail checklist or Fb group to see if somebody desires to go see what’s round at a close-by hotspot. Exit and have an excellent time!
The winner will obtain a brand new ZEISS SFL 8×40 binocular and will probably be notified by the tenth of the next month. Every month we are going to characteristic a brand new eBird problem and set of choice standards. And don’t overlook to submit lists for the 2023 Guidelines-a-day Problem!
ZEISS is a confirmed chief in sports activities optics and is the official optics sponsor for eBird. “We’re thrilled to proceed our partnership with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and help the very important scientific knowledge being collected by devoted eBirders.” – Richard Moncrief, Birding and Nature Statement Section Supervisor at ZEISS.