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Saturday, February 11, 2012

eBird best practices
Count the birds

Take your eBirding to the next level--count the numbers of individual birds you see.

Counts of individual birds help eBird's bar charts, abundance graphs, and frequency graphs be more accurate and, in fact, exist at all.

You don't have to be exact. 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000... If you are in the correct order of magnitude, these estimates are better than X, which is what you use when you don't count. [Please remember that X is correct when you don't count. Don't enter 1 for each species when you mean X.]



More information on this topic can be found on the eBird site, The trouble with 'X'.

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