ITHACA, N.Y. - Millions of people donate billions of dollars' worth of their time to citizen-science projects each year. While these efforts have broadened our understanding of everything from birds ...

Your casual birdwatching can fuel global research and conservation through citizen science platforms like eBird. By logging sightings—whether in your backyard or on a hike—you help scientists track ...

A new study published in the journal Ornithological Applications shows how conservation organizations are using data from birdwatchers to pinpoint opportunities to reverse population declines. The ...

Birders can use eBird to: * Record and track their own birding observations * View data submitted by other birders * View data for birding hotspots * Receive rare bird alerts * Contribute to the ...

Platforms such as iNaturalist and eBird encourage people to observe and document nature, but how accurate is the ecological data that they collect? In a new study published in Citizen Science: Theory ...

Western tanagers are migratory birds that are present in Northern California in the spring and again in late summer. A new study shows that observations by 'citizen scientists' using apps such as ...