For nearly 30 years Vermont bird watchers dutifully sent in their sightings
each season to the Records of Vermont Birds, a project hosted at the
Vermont Institute of Natural Science. A corps of dedicated volunteers
assembled the information into a statewide summary each season that was
printed and mailed to birders. *For the first time all of these reports are
now available on-line!
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*Visit http://www.vtecostudies.org/vbrc/RVB.html
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All of the original records were archived in boxes for the historical
record.  The 30 years of data undoubtedly hold many conservation and
scientific discoveries, but the lack of a computer database for retrieval
of these data has proven to be a roadblock to examining them for years, not
to mention the inability to save these records in event of a catastrophe
such as fire or flood. The Vermont Institute of Natural Science joined
other Vermont eBird affiliates and provided us with all of the Records of
Vermont Birds historic data to be entered into the Vermont
eBird<http://ebird.org/content/vt>database.

*We need your help!*

There is a vast amount of data to be entered and without a corp of
volunteers we can't possibly do it. Thankfully, Vermont eBird has a data
uploading system. The data is easily entered on a special Excel spreadsheet
on any computer allowing us to upload it using a special system in eBird.
There’s really no experience necessary. Just a bit of volunteer time and an
interest in birds. If you’d like to help us out, please contact us at
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Thank you to all the birders and volunteers who collected and compiled this
data. Also, thanks to VCE Volunteers Sarah Carline, Patrick Nevers, and
Tonya Piko who helped compile, scan and format these historic reports.

Enjoy the archive!

Kent
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Kent McFarland
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
PO Box 420 | Norwich, Vermont 05055
802.649.1431 x2

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