Rockbridge Bird Cub has invited UVA Professor Victor Laubach to give a talk on birding software applications and demonstrate how two of the more popular apps – eBird and Merlin – can “enhance your birding experience.”
The interactive program is scheduled for next Tuesday (April 8) in the Piovanno Room at Rockbridge Regional Library starting at 6:45 pm with a social gathering followed by the presentation at 7:00. All Bird Club-sponsored programs are free and open to the public.
Laubach will share his experience using eBird and Merlin, free apps created by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. He’ll show how he uses eBird to record and manage his own bird sightings, then demonstrate how the Merlin app uses eBird data to help identify birds, especially by their songs and calls.
Rather than show slides, Laubach will use live, online interaction to show how to use eBird and Merlin in the field on a mobile device. The presentation is meant to be more of an introductory "workshop" on the basics of both of these popular birding apps.
Laubach is a Professor of Surgery at the the University of Virginia School of Medicine, where he runs a lab that studies lung transplantation. He is currently Vice-President of the Augusta Bird Club and Coordinator of the Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch in Afton.
An avid birder, Laubach has been using the eBird and Merlin apps since they were introduced by the Cornell Lab in 2002 and 2014, respectively. He currently has 5,807 eBird checklists and 711 species sightings worldwide, including 4,275 checklists and 267 species sightings in Augusta County alone.
The interactive program is scheduled for next Tuesday (April 8) in the Piovanno Room at Rockbridge Regional Library starting at 6:45 pm with a social gathering followed by the presentation at 7:00. All Bird Club-sponsored programs are free and open to the public.
Laubach will share his experience using eBird and Merlin, free apps created by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. He’ll show how he uses eBird to record and manage his own bird sightings, then demonstrate how the Merlin app uses eBird data to help identify birds, especially by their songs and calls.
Rather than show slides, Laubach will use live, online interaction to show how to use eBird and Merlin in the field on a mobile device. The presentation is meant to be more of an introductory "workshop" on the basics of both of these popular birding apps.
Laubach is a Professor of Surgery at the the University of Virginia School of Medicine, where he runs a lab that studies lung transplantation. He is currently Vice-President of the Augusta Bird Club and Coordinator of the Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch in Afton.
An avid birder, Laubach has been using the eBird and Merlin apps since they were introduced by the Cornell Lab in 2002 and 2014, respectively. He currently has 5,807 eBird checklists and 711 species sightings worldwide, including 4,275 checklists and 267 species sightings in Augusta County alone.
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