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The eBird Trail Tracker at Sapsucker Woods

Want to make sure your birding observations count towards more than a sense of satisfaction? Welcome to the future of birding! With the eBird TrailTracker you can enter your bird sightings from walks through Sapsucker Woods using an easy touch-screen. Your observations are then added to others in the eBird database that scientists and citizens use to understand more about bird distributions.

What is eBird?


eBird is a real-time, online checklist program that has revolutionized the way that the birding community reports and accesses information about birds.  Developed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society, eBird enables anyone to enter bird sightings from anywhere in North America and explore the results.

What is the eBird TrailTracker?


The eBird TrailTracker is a portal through which any birdwatcher can enter the birds they have observed into the eBird database, which are then made easily available to visitors.  Furthermore, you have the option to accurately map your observations on a large-scale map of the trails of Sapsucker Woods

Why eBird?


A vast source of information about birds, eBird is useful to bird watchers, scientists, and conservationists worldwide.

Every time you notice a bird, you are holding a piece of a puzzle.  By sharing your sighting with others through eBird, you'll make it possible to complete the picture we need to better understand and protect birds well into the future

eBird TrailTracker screenshots

The eBird TrailTracker gives you an up-to-the minute list of species seen in Sapsucker Woods in the last 24 hours, plus options to look at sightings over the last week or up to 30 days in the past. 

Each of these observations has been entered into the eBird TrailTracker in the Visitors' Center at Sapsucker Woods, or have been entered into eBird via the web, giving you a comprehensive picture of what birds to expect while out on the trails.
When observations are entered using the eBird TrailTracker, you have the opportunity to accurately map where you saw the species within the Sanctuary.  Your mapped observations allow other visitors to get a quick picture of where birds are being seen. 


To learn more about the capabilities of the eBird TrailTracker, click here