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In May, 2023, we hosted a webinar that introduced basic concepts regarding Estimating Abundance and Trends for the World’s Birds using eBird data. During that webinar, many ornithologists were eager to take these concepts one step further so they could apply this to their own work.

Open registration is now available for the third season of Birds of the World Discovery Webinars! Note our Season Kick-off webinar featuring members of the Birds of the World team on September 12th.

We know how important it is for readers to have the ability to study or take into the field printed Birds of the World species accounts, and how consultants and federal and state biologists need to append hard copies to agency reports. Thanks to this new feature, things just got easier! .
Located in the isolated Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains of northern Colombia, little has been known about the species as it was lost to science for 64 years before being photographed once in 2010, only to become lost again before its rediscovery in 2022 by Yurgen Vega, one of the authors of the new study.
Join us for the next Birds of the World ‘Discovery Series’ webinar Avian phylogeny: a complete and dynamic tree of birds Date: Thursday, 18 April 2024 Time: 12:00 PM EST (timezone converter) Length: 1 hour Registration: Required for real-time attendance or to receive video at a later time. Our understanding of avian evolutionary relationships constantly […]

Over the past 4 yrs, The Red-tailed Hawk Project has captured and sampled more than 400 hawks from 7 of the 16 described subspecies and deployed over 100 tracking units. In this webinar, Bryce Robinson, PhD Candidate at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, will share what the project has learned from these efforts, and what they hope to learn moving forward.
In this webinar, FERNANDO MEDRANO, the assistant director of the Chilean NGO called Red de Observadores de Aves y Vida Silvestre de Chile, presented an in-depth overview on what is known and yet unknown about the storm-petrels of the world.
We are happy to announce that Aves Uruguay, the leading organization for the study and conservation of birds in Uruguay, has joined the global Birds of the World partner network.
A medida que Birds of the World se acerca al cierre de nuestro cuarto año (!), tenemos muchas buenas noticias que informar sobre cómo la plataforma se ha expandido y adaptado a nuevas oportunidades. ¡A continuación presentamos más detalles!
As Birds of the World inches towards the close of our fourth year (!), we have much good news to report about how the project has developed, expanded, and adapted to new opportunities. Please read on for details!