6 million birds need your help!

Exciting news - the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center recently announced the North American Bird Phenology Program publicly releasing as many as 6 million bird observations preserved on notecards over the past century. In order to unlock the power of this wealth of information, however, each record must first be transcribed from its current handwritten form into digital files, all by volunteers. As you can imagine, the observations on these cards are tremendously valuable and offer "more than a century of information about bird migration, a veritable treasure trove for climate-change researchers because they will help them unravel the effects of climate change on bird behavior" said Jessica Zelt, coordinator of the North American Bird Phenology Program at the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research
Center.

We would love for the Birdpost community to lend a hand in this collective
effort to better understand bird life in this country.

The USGS press release can be found at:
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=2164

To get involved go here:
https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bpp/BecomeAParticipant.cfm.

Here is an additional article put out by CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/03/26/pp.bird.usgs/index.html.