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Database Maintenance on August 19—eBird Unavailable 04:00-08:00 ET
eBird, Macaulay Library, and Birds of the World will be unavailable on 19 August between 04:00-08:00 AM Eastern Time (08:00-12:00 GMT) for scheduled database maintenance. You also won’t be able to save Merlin identifications or refresh your Life List during this window.
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Documenting a Lost Bird: First-ever Recordings of Red Weaver Collected with Merlin Bird ID
Kenyan birders James Apolloh Omenya and Simon Odhiambo located the Red Weaver, a species that hadn’t been documented since 2014. They collected the first known recordings of the species using the Merlin Bird ID app.
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From Truth to Fake: The Threat of AI to Media Archives
As AI becomes commonplace, what you see in a photograph may no longer represent reality. Learn about how this impacts eBird and what you can do to help.
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