eBird: engaging birders in science and conservation.
How do you successfully engage an audience in a citizen-science project? The processes developed by eBird (www.ebird.org), a fast-growing web-based tool that now gathers millions of bird observations per month, offers a model.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York, USA. chris.wood@cornell.edu
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