The Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society's eBird.org website is an ideal tool for tracking your progress on achieving the Centrury Club Award.
Using eBird is an ideal way to make sure te data you gather while working on the award gets put to use.
eBird "knows" what county a site is in so keeping track of your counties is easy. eBird will also let you enter your records at the county level.
There are four ways to enter your data into eBird while working on your award.
- Enter your data using the predefined "hot spots". Most of the best birding locations are already defined in eBird. When you bird one its easy to enter your data using those hot spots.
- Define your own locations. eBird has good tools to define them. You can even suggest them as hot spots so that others can use them.
- City Level records. eBird also allows you to enter your data by the city. Click on the "Submit Observations", then select "Find it by City, County, or State". Type in the city name. Leave the county name blank and enter the state and click continue. On the next page click continue if it has selected the correct city (very small towns may not be in the database but most towns and cities are present). You now can use this location to enter records for that county.
- County Level records. eBird does allow you to enter your data by just the county. Click on the "Submit Observations", then select "Find it by City, County, or State". You can leave the city blank. Enter the county name and state and click continue. On the next page click continue if it has selected the correct county. You now can use this location to enter records for that county.
Old records not in eBird
If you have old records in a computer format and don't want to enter then by hand they can be uploaded into eBird. If you have a database program you like you can can also continue to use it and upload records into eBird. If you would like help in uploadng records contact or .
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