Birds and maps. Birder Interface Designer @Team_eBird. Former Cartographer @NatlParkService
Joined July 2008
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Taylor Long retweeted
18 Jul 2019
Have you heard the news? eBird's explore tools, including species maps & hotspot explorer are now optimized for your mobile phone! šDiscover #birds & new #birding destinations easily on your mobile device! Give it a try & get out birding today! #eBird #birdID @MerlinBirdID
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Taylor Long retweeted
15 Jul 2019
The annual #eBird taxonomy update is coming soon! The global species total in eBird will increase from 10585 to 10721 & will include 3 newly-described species, 48 extinct species previously not included, & ~107 species added due to splits ebird.org/news/2019-ebird-taā¦
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Taylor Long retweeted
22 Jan 2019
On 22 January 2019, #eBird and the @MacaulayLibrary reached another milestone: 10 million photos. Thank you to photographers everywhere who have made this possible. This landmark image is of a Rufous-backed Redstart, taken by Pavel Parkhaev in Kazakhstan.
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Calling all birdwatchers, citizen scientists, and nature-lovers: you can track over 100 North American birds with eBird! š¦ This online map is continuously updated with @NASAEarth satellite data and observations from people like you. Start contributing: go.nasa.gov/2EElNKt
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Taylor Long retweeted
10 Dec 2018
Proud to say that the new eBird Status & Trends ranges boundaries are ONLY downloadable as GeoPackages! We'll never escape from shapefiles unless we commit to not using them as the default. This is why you should switch: switchfromshapefile.org/ @opengeospatial @GeoPackage1 #gis
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Taylor Long retweeted
8 Dec 2018
eBird's new Abundance Maps give a single-frame snapshot of a species' full range, where it's most numerous, and in what season it is there. A single map may have never contained so much information about where and when a species occurs. Explore more: ebird.org/science/status-andā¦
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Taylor Long retweeted
6 Dec 2018
eBird Status & Trends is produced almost entirely using #rstats, from data manipulation, to modeling, to making beautiful maps of relative abundance, range boundaries, and trends for 107 species! Thanks to the amazing community of R package developers that made this possible š
3 Dec 2018
A new era of eBird Science is here: Status and Trends. Your sightings and novel analysis methods have combined to create detailed population information for 107 species of North American birds. Learn more and explore exciting new results here: ebird.org/news/a-new-era-of-ā¦
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Taylor Long retweeted
3 Dec 2018
eBird Status and Trends: Here's what happens when birders enter 12 million checklists and @Team_eBird crosses them with NASA satellite data. We get maps of how 107 bird species are doing all across North America: bit.ly/2BOZwa8
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Taylor Long retweeted
3 Dec 2018
A new era of eBird Science is here: Status and Trends. Your sightings and novel analysis methods have combined to create detailed population information for 107 species of North American birds. Learn more and explore exciting new results here: ebird.org/news/a-new-era-of-ā¦
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3 Dec 2018
Super excited to finally share this cool thing I got to work on all year!
ebird.org/news/a-new-era-of-ā¦
#maps #birds #ebird #citizenscience
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Taylor Long retweeted
26 Oct 2018
#eBird has a million ways to help your birdingāand we bet you don't know them all. Whether you're a new or long-time eBirder, we're confident that our new freeĀ #eBirdEssentials have at least one new tip or trick for you. Check out eBird Essentials: academy.allaboutbirds.org/coā¦
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Taylor Long retweeted
6 Jun 2018
Reviving my long-dormant twitter for a very good reason: we've formed a union at the @NewYorker ! I love working here, I love the people I work with, and I want this place to continue thriving #NewYorkerUnion
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29 May 2018
This epic @Team_eBird checklist of 700,000 warblers is by far the most viewed page on eBird.org today ā way more visits than Home, My eBird, or Explore. It's already one of the most viewed checklists in eBird history. #Migration ebird.org/view/checklist/S46ā¦
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Taylor Long retweeted
18 May 2018
Come work at #eBird, the @MacaulayLibrary, and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology! Be a part of the future of birding. Right now we have five positions availableālearn more here: ebird.org/about/jobs
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Taylor Long retweeted
7 May 2018
We've done it! A new world record! As a global team, 25,851 birders have reported 6,671 species of birds on #GlobalBigDay (and still climbing!). Thank you.
If you went birding on 5 May, your sightings can still count! Report them on #eBird before 9 May: ebird.org/globalbigday
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Taylor Long retweeted
5 May 2018
#GlobalBigDay is happening! 2080 bird species have already been reported from 1000 birders in 92 countries, and the day is still young for most of the world...!
Make sure to go birding today, 5 May, and submit your sightings to #eBird to make them count! ebird.org/globalbigday
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4 May 2018
I love watching the first @Team_eBird observations appear from countries where it is already May 5th. #GlobalBigDay - coming soon to a time zone near you! ebird.org/globalbigday
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Taylor Long retweeted
25 Apr 2018
#eBird and the @MacaulayLibrary have a fun & useful new tool: the eBird photo sound quiz. Have fun while practicing your bird identification! Warning: your spare time may never be the same. ebird.org/quiz/
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Taylor Long retweeted
22 Mar 2018
#eBird now contains more than half a billion bird sightings. The 500,000,000th sighting? A Barn Swallow from Myanmar seen by Wich'yanan (Jay) Limparungpatthanakij! Thank you, #eBirders everywhere.
ebird.org/news/500-million-eā¦ Pic Ā©Jonathan Eckerson/@MacaulayLibrary
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