Okay, so I love using Inaturalist, and I log all of my observations on it, but I also have eBird. Now, I don’t really use eBird because I find it to be almost more complicated for user interface than Inaturalist, but I am sure I could learn the ropes eventually. Regardless, my question is, should I …

I use ebird just to report sightings I think may be of interest to birders, like the Barn Owl and vagrant Nordmann’s Greenshank. It takes way too long to submit lists for every bird I see.

I use both. eBird is, in my opinion, significantly better for birds than iNat, but it obviously only does birds. I like being able to report checklists without my camera, but eBird also requires at least some level of being able to ID birds on your own for it to work… which is why I didn’t use it fo…

[image] marina_gorbunova: eBird requires much more dedication to counting It means you have to add the number of birds with each observation?

[quote=“natemarchessault, post:7, topic:31802”] Another great reason for using eBird is that it doesn’t require any media to observe and you can quickly document species and numbers. You could sort of do that with iNat but based on the interface it doesn’t work so well for certain things.[/quote] …

I actually use iNat Casual observations for birds I can’t photograph or record, but only for something like the City Nature Challenge when every species counts (and I’m a little competitive). If someone is mostly a birder, then eBird is best. If the observer is mostly into anything but birds, then …

I use the (relatively new) sound ID in eBird which helps satisfy my curiosity but typically don’t document birds in either iNaturalist or eBird. I figure with all the passionate birders out there–it’s mostly covered by others where I live and my equipment isn’t great for capturing birds.

“It takes way too long” That’s why you use the mobile app.

My husband only really uses eBird. I’ve recruited him to iNat but he only uses it sporadically for non-bird observations, and even then only for the computer vision (he wants results immediately). There’s no way he wants to try to photograph or record every bird he encounters - we don’t have the e…

eBird definitely has some advantages over iNat in use of the data for scientific research because it is semi-structured. And if you are able to ID quickly, then yes, it will be faster. So that’s one advantage to using eBird, but as others have noted it’s really about how you define “should” - I wou…

I use both. I find the course recorded by the eBird app useful to remember where to put the point onto the map in iNat (there I mostly upload observations of insects from the desktop version). Recently, after a long straight route over a meadow, I walked a 30-m jag where I photographed a peculiar gr…

Should I be Using eBird?

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