Add Weather & Recordings to eBird Checklists

[Gregg Goodrich]

COBirders

You can easily add the weather to your eBird checklist. Copy your eBird checklist ID which is in the upper left corner of your checklist and then paste it into the RainCrow weather link below.

https://raincrow.app/

Hit the “Get Weather” button and then hit the “Copy to clipboard” on the RainCrow site. Now, paste the info into the comments field on your checklist. Here is a sample on my list today of how it looks.

https://ebird.org/checklist/S164834628

Using the time and date of your checklist, RainCrow will give you the beginning and ending temperature, wind, wind direction, cloud cover and humidity. A really nice way to enhance your checklist.

Another way to improve your checklist is to add bird song recordings. Cornell’s Merlin bird sound ID app uses our recordings to learn the bird songs. The more recordings we add to our checklists the better the app gets. I recently received an email from The Macaulay Library team. The email said they have used 52 of my bird recordings to help train Merlin to better ID bird sounds. You too can help. Have fun adding weather and bird sound recordings to your checklists.

https://support.ebird.org/en/support/solutions/articles/48001064341-audio-preparation-and-upload-guidelines

Gregg Goodrich

Highlands Ranch CO