OK…so I’m at a point that I’m sure others have been at/are at and I’d like to hear your thinking. I’m not a serious “birder” by any means, but I’ve become more interested/involved in it the last few years. And part of that is my posting fairly regular eBird lists/submissions. But now I’ve discove…

Insects, fungus, annual plants, bats, rodents, etc. all present their own challenges, but so do birds. The issue of accounting for detectability and observation error is something has been a huge topic in among wildlife biologists for the past few decades. I get the sense (maybe @fogartyf can weig…

I think it depends on the scale of data collection. There is plenty of rigorous data collection (e.g., with standardized protocols, effort information, study design, etc.) by researchers working for universities, NGOs, and agencies. The downside is that it’s expensive, so it’s difficult to achieve t…

I have not been successful in adding clickable links in ebird. I think it is good as supplemental info, such as additional pictures of the bird or even a link to an iNat observation of an insect being eaten. However, the photos in eBird are used in illustrated checklists and that would be lost. I w…

Huh, weird. I don’t do it very often so I didn’t remember how to do it. I’ve just checked and I can still get it to work (I was wondering if the new checklist format messed it up), but I don’t see what the difference is between what you did and what I did… I learned how to do it from this help arti…

Hey thanks. I copied/pasted that code and voila…it works. Thanks again!

It looks like the typewriter quotation marks got replaced by left and right quotation marks somehow.

I use both ebird and iNat, although I have only just joined iNat and am in the process of uploading my data. For birds, I think both sites have their pros and cons. Ebird, for sheer volume of data collection, cannot be beaten. I guess you could say I am a heavy user of ebird. On ebird I can upload…

Oh…and ebird does not allow Camera Trap sightings. iNat does which is awesome.

I’ve been using eBird for years and just started on iNaturalist. One feature that I use in eBird nearly every day that I’m not sure is available in iNaturalist is exploring sightings by area… county, state, or specific hotspot. In deciding where to go birding I might check out where the most interes…

If I’m understanding correctly, you can use the ‘explore’ section on the website to do this. For example you can search for observation by a place (e.g. Roane County, Tennessee): https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=310 by a place and a taxon (e.g. Roane County, Tennessee snakes): ht…

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