Let's Learn eBird!
Sat, Feb 14
|Monterey Public Library Community Room
eBird is a convenient mobile app that helps you keep a birding checklist in the field, contributing to the largest global database of bird sightings! Come learn about how to use the app and eBird website to both contribute to science and enhance your bird knowledge.
Time & Location
Feb 14, 2026, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Monterey Public Library Community Room, 625 Pacific St, Monterey, CA 93940, USA
Guests
About the event
eBird is a global community science program, currently with 1,225,880 contributors and 120,808,698 digital bird checklists. It was created by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and has been widely used in scientific research to study species distributions, population trends, evolution, and behavior. It’s used daily by birders and helps beginning birders learn what species are common in the region and where to find specific species. Anyone can contribute and anyone can utilize the information!
In this introductory workshop, we’ll cover how to use eBird to submit bird observations and explore the database. We’ll learn to use both the eBird app and the website. We’ll also explore the Merlin app, which helps you learn to identify birds and is powered by the eBird database.
This short workshop will be lead by Amanda Preece from the Monterey Audubon Society in celebration of the Great Backyard Bird Count, happening from February 13 - 16th.
Important! Please create an eBird profile (website HERE) and download the app on your phone (download HERE) before arriving for the class. If you'd like to bring a laptop to access the website you may, or you can access it on another device with internet access. Make sure you can log in with the correct username and password ahead of time for both the app and computer. If you have trouble creating your account or accessing the app, please contact us before the class at amanda.preece@montereyaudubon.org. See you there!