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These Birds Need Your Help Now!
Birds Canada has 2 citizen science projects coming up that could really use your participation.
Have you ever done any citizen science? I have and I found it quite rewarding knowing that I participated in projects that helped researchers gather data to better explore the questions they were seeking to answer.
So I thought that now and then, it would be a good idea to let you know about citizen science projects that you might like to volunteer your time and energy for.
These two citizen science projects are being organized by Birds Canada and they would love to have you join them! And you don’t really need to know anything about birds to participate!
They are the Nocturnal Owl Survey and The Canadian Nightjar Survey.
The field of citizen science has grown substantially in recent years. Especially now that connections between distant people are so easily made on the internet.
And big data sets are getting easier to analyze. In the past, if there was too much data, a lot of it might never actually get used for any serious analysis. But now, not only is more data sought and welcomed, it requires an army of citizen scientists to help analyze it.
