There have been some great checklists lately on the list serve. If you 
have not been contributing your sightings to Vermont eBird...here might 
be a reason to try it out!

We've just launched an updated version of Google Maps that not only 
shows you where eBird birding hotspots and your personal locations are 
found on the map, but it also allows you to select these for data entry 
directly from the map! With over 15,000 hotspots now in our database, 
you should be able to easily find an exciting birding location near you 
and efficiently contribute your data. If your local hotspots still 
aren't there, you can always map them and send them on to us through our 
hotspot suggestion interface. Plotting new locations on the map still 
works like it used to, but the added bonus of selecting hotspots should 
make data entry even easier. Read more by clicking the Google Map.

http://ebird.org/content/vins/

Thanks.
Kent

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Kent McFarland
Conservation Biology Department
Vermont Institute of Natural Science
6565 Woodstock Road
PO Box 1281
Quechee, VT 05059
802-359-5001 x234

http://www.vinsweb.org/cbd

Visit the CBD Blog: http://www.vinsweb.org/cbd/news.html

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