We are pleased to announce the release of several new eBird output tools 
featuring Arrivals, Departures and High Counts. These tools provide 
birders with new ways to explore the eBird data, to learn when and where 
birds are being reported and to get a better sense of eBird's historic 
data. You can check it out at http://ebird.org/content/vt/.

We have assembled historic data as far back as the 1800s and we will be 
entering this data into spreadsheets to be uploaded into VT eBird over 
the next year+. With the new uploading tools in eBird, this task has 
become much easier to complete. If you'd like to help us enter historic 
data into spreadsheets for uploading to eBird, please let us know. This 
data comes from old notebooks, note cards, records of Vermont birds, and 
published sources. Our goal at Vermont Center for Ecostudies is to get 
all of this data into one place, enabling us to analyze it for many 
things such changes in arrival times. And allowing everyone access to 
the wealth of bird knowledge for Vermont that is scattered in disjunct 
places. If you have or know of more historical data, please let us know!

I encourage all of you to record first arrival dates for all species as 
spring comes along (one of these days) and enter it into Vermont eBird.

Thank you.
Kent

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Kent McFarland
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
PO Box 420 • Norwich, VT 05055
802.649.1431
http://www.vtecostudies.org/

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