Birding is centered on connections: connecting to at least one’s self, connecting to nature, and connecting to others. This month’s eBirder of the Month problem, sponsored by ZEISS, is all about birding collectively. This may very well be a day within the discipline with a long-time birding good friend with whom you’ve been checking a neighborhood patch for 30 years, or getting out with somebody who’s simply beginning. It may very well be with an present eBirder or an birder who hasn’t began eBirding but. The eBirder of the Month will likely be drawn from eBirders who submit 20 eligible shared checklists throughout November. Every shared guidelines that you simply’re part of counts in direction of qualifying for the problem. These lists may very well be shared with you from one other particular person or shared from you to another person—the one requirement is that every one folks on the shared guidelines had been part of the birding occasion. These checklists have to be entered, shared, and accepted by the final day of the month with a purpose to qualify for the drawing.
We hope that you need to use this guidelines sharing problem as inspiration to get out within the discipline with fellow birders. Introduce somebody to eBird. Join with a birding buddy at your favourite hotspot. Take a stroll on the native park along with your youngsters, or put up in your native birding e-mail record or Fb group to see if somebody desires to go see what’s round at a close-by hotspot. Exit and have an excellent time!
The winner will obtain a brand new ZEISS SFL 8×40 binocular and will likely be notified by the tenth of the next month. Every month we’ll function a brand new eBird problem and set of choice standards. And don’t neglect to submit lists for the 2024 Guidelines-a-day Problem!
ZEISS is a confirmed chief in sports activities optics and is the official optics sponsor for eBird. “We’re thrilled to proceed our partnership with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and assist the very important scientific knowledge being collected by devoted eBirders.” – Richard Moncrief, Birding and Nature Statement Phase Supervisor at ZEISS