[Maine-birds] Maine Bird Atlas - Summer Update

Hi everyone:

Thanks for your patience during my hiatus from posting weekly challenges for the Maine Bird Atlas. This has been an amazing breeding season and I've had a great time connecting with hundreds of people around the state about the atlas. From training sessions and birding festivals, to garden clubs and teen camps, the range of folks interested in this project is inspiring. Here are a couple summer updates:

Since the beginning of this second breeding season:
Over 11,000 checklists submitted to the Maine Bird Atlas portal
264 new volunteers have contributed checklists
Bringing our total survey time by volunteers to over 25,000 hours
200 new Priority Blocks have data, increasing the percent coverage from 50% to 71%
And 3 more species have Confirmed records, bringing the total to 202

Also, I wanted to make sure people knew our most recent newsletter is available here:
https://ebird.org/atlasme/news/black-capped-chronicle-issue-4-spring-summer-2019

And a quick reminder as we progress through the nesting season that volunteers should use a bit of caution with some codes. Post-breeding dispersal (bring on the White Ibis!) and fall migration (shorebirds!!) are underway and many juvenile birds are moving from their natal grounds - be careful to not code these as "Recently Fledged". More details on this and other issues can be found in this article: https://ebird.org/atlasme/news/fledglings/

New Weekend Challenges coming this Friday!

Happy atlasing!


Doug Hitchcox
Maine Bird Atlas - Outreach Coordinator
Maine Audubon - Staff Naturalist
207-781-2330 x237
dhitchcox@maineaudubon.org

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