In previous years less than 5 of the local birders used eBird regularly, but this year after completing some missionary work we have at least 12 locals using it on a regular basis!
Some milestones we've reached:
- For the first time in Newfoundland eBirding history over 1000 checklists have been submitted from the avalon peninsula in one month (that was in May)!
- Another big milestone we already reached this year is to have 10 people submit over 100 checklists (previous record was 4), and 8 people with over 100 species submitted (previous record was 7). And we're only at the half way point!
- Anyway, the real reason this should be exciting is because more data is being contributed to the database and is publicly available. Check out these maps for Northern Waterthrush and Yellow-bellied Flycatcher sightings - blue is from 2013, orange is from 2014.
Northern Waterthrush:
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher:
Big differences in those 2 years!
Some photos from this morning at Cape St. Francis:
Wouldn't be a cape in Newfoundland if there weren't pipits:
