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 -- Kent McFarland Vermont Center for Ecostudies PO Box 420 • Norwich, VT 05055 802.649.1431 http://www.vtecostudies.org/ **************************************************************** To post messages, send e-mail to: [log in to unmask] Set your e-mail application to PLAIN TEXT ONLY to post messages. To contact the list owner: [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Web based archives and subscription management are available at: http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/Archives/uv-birders.html ****************************************************************