This month’s eBirder of the Month problem, sponsored by Carl Zeiss Sports activities Optics, is all about capturing birding reminiscences by images and audio recordings. Every photograph or audio recording you add is an extremely highly effective piece of knowledge. Media assist to doc information, present sources for studying and schooling, and likewise pave the best way for future birding instruments. The eBirder of the month will likely be drawn from eBirders who add 50 or extra rated images or audio recordings to eligible checklists in December.
There are greater than 44 million images and sounds presently archived within the Macaulay Library. This assortment has develop into an unparalleled studying useful resource and an exceedingly invaluable dataset for researchers and birders worldwide.
One of the vital thrilling makes use of of this media assortment has been for Merlin Chicken ID— automated identification of hen images and sounds. The media that you contributed by eBird have made it doable for Merlin to establish over 8000 of the world’s hen species, with extra species coming quickly.
By participating on this month’s eBirder of the Month Problem, you assist to make Merlin, and eBird, even higher. Add your images and sounds and discover ways to price them to make your media uploads as helpful as they are often.
Checklists and media should be for observations throughout this month; not historic checklists entered throughout December. The winner will obtain a brand new ZEISS Conquest HD 8×42 binocular and will likely be notified by the tenth of the next month. Every month we’ll characteristic a brand new eBird problem and set of choice standards. And don’t neglect to submit lists for the 2022 Guidelines-a-day Problem!
Carl Zeiss Sports activities Optics 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 important scientific knowledge being collected by devoted eBirders.” – Richard Moncrief, Birding and Nature Commentary Section Supervisor at Carl Zeiss SBE