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In this project Prof. Peter Auster and others analyzed ten decades of CBC (Christmas Bird Count) data to compare the marine birds in three of the largest estuaries in the US Northeast (Delaware Bay, Long Island Sound, and Cape Cod / Massachusetts Bay), and how they are changing over time. The CBC is probably the longest running citizen-science project in the United States, having begun in 1900. This project is one example of the value of birders contributing to citizen-science, and some of the many uses that can be made of that contributed data.
Here is Peter Auster's paper:
“A Century of Change in the Avifauna of Three Large Northeast US Estuaries”
March 2017
“ an exploratory examination of ten decades of Christmas Bird Count (CBC) data to compare and contrast the winter avifauna along the coasts of Delaware Bay, Long Island Sound, and Cape Cod-Massachusetts Bay from 1920-2014. “
This is a good example of scientists using data collected by birders over one hundred years (the Christmas Bird Counts) to test hypotheses, to answer questions…
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