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Asia


India Birds, part of a global network of bird listing sites.

Asian Waterbird Census, conducting waterbird counts since 1987, coordinated by Wetlands International, with the BNHS as Indian partner.


North America

The Christmas Bird Count is one of the most popular bird projects in North America; it now contains more than a century of data on early-winter bird populations across the Americas.

eBird is a real-time, online checklist program that was launched in 2002 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society.

The Great Backyard Bird Count is an annual four-day event that engages bird watchers of all ages in counting birds to create a real-time snapshot of where the birds are across North America.

NatureWatch is a suite of monitoring programs, including FrogWatch, PlantWatch and more.

Citizen Science Social network: a weblog on citizen science projects.

Project BudBurst engages the public in the collection of important climate change data based on the timing of leafing and flowering of trees and flowers.

In the Great Sunflower Project, volunteers track bee numbers at sunflowers in their gardens.


Europe

BirdTrack is an online bird recording scheme by the British Trust of Ornithology, RSPB and Birdwatch (Ireland) for the region of Britain and Ireland.

Breeding Birds in the Wider Countryside website is a “one-stop shop" for information about the population status of England’s terrestrial birds. It is based on data gathered by many thousands of volunteers who contribute to British Trust of Ornithology -led surveys.



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