
Conservation
Your first eBird checklist: make it complete and useful
Choose the right protocol, count or estimate every bird you identify, handle unknown birds honestly and submit a first eBird checklist scientists can use.
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Protected areas, access rules and the pressures on the places we cover.

Choose the right protocol, count or estimate every bird you identify, handle unknown birds honestly and submit a first eBird checklist scientists can use.

Which photos make a plant identifiable, how to group them into one iNaturalist observation, when to mark it cultivated and how records reach Research Grade.

Why moving firewood spreads tree-killing pests, how far is too far, what certified heat-treated means and how state and park rules differ, with US examples.
Links to reference material and organisations we don't control.