using eBird; ways to improve your checklists

If you've been using eBird, good for you. If you haven't tried it, you really might want to start.

Here are a few reasons:

It's easy. It's fun.

It makes your data useful to science in a broad array of ways  - consider the recently-completed 5 years of field-work on the Wisconsin Breeding Bird Atlas II, which gathered data from

125,641 checklists, submitted by 2,147 participants

Here's a great set of ways to improve your checklists:
https://support.ebird.org/en/support/solutions/articles/48000795623-ebird-best-practices