Practice and Learn Best Usage of Merlin and eBird in the Field
Trip Leaders: Doug Reitz & Charlotte Pavelka (847) 347-8416
Improve your bird ID skills using your smartphone! Birding apps can boost your learning curve from beginner to expert quickly and save you the expense and weight of heavy field guide books not tailored to your specific location. Please set up your smartphone with the FREE Merlin Bird ID app and eBird app before our walk. Bring your phone and your binoculars, and we’ll learn and practice using the app to help you identify birds by sight and by sound. Beginners (and oldies) are welcome; no prior experience with birding or with Merlin or eBird are necessary. Even if you have used Merlin and eBird before, it’s a good opportunity to learn and practice their latest features.
Apps are especially helpful if you are traveling to new regions of the U.S. or the world as they focus on that location at that specific time of year. Your trip leaders will also discuss five or six other birding and nature apps that are great companions for your outdoor adventures that you may want to try.
The migrants will just be starting to arrive at Daniel Wright and you will be prepared for the big push in May. Early warblers, thrushes and flycatchers plus year-round residents will be present. Let’s go Birding!