WISCONSIN - You can take bird watching to the next level by taking part in the state's biggest bird survey. It's called Wisconsin Breeding Bird Atlas II. The project will let researchers know what birds are nesting in the state.
"This is a serious data-gathering project, but we don't ask professional scientists to do it, we ask regular Wisconsin citizens to go out and gather bird data for us," explained Lincoln County Atlas Coordinator Mike Worland. "We expect it's going to be the largest citizen science project in the history of Wisconsin."
The original atlas project gathered bird data from 1995 to 2000 and confirmed 226 different species nested in Wisconsin. Observations this time will be submitted using the online app called eBird. Your observations could change the way that state managers protect birds in the future.
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