eBird Checklist Entry Shortcuts.

For various reasons, I've been keeping my Christmas Bird Count checklists on paper in the field and entering them into eBird later. This can be much less time-consuming thanks to some clever shortcuts and hotkeys that eBird has built into their user interface for entering data. This article is definitely worth a read if you enter eBird data using their web site:

http://help.ebird.org/customer/portal/articles/1006786-data-entry-shortcuts-and-tips

When transferring a paper bird list to eBird, you can go down the bird species on your paper list in the order you wrote them down without ever taking your hands off the keyboard!

Posted on December 20, 2015 04:50 PM by mikaelb