Trektellen Migration Counts Great Britain
If
you count bird migration with constant effort you should seriously consider
adding your data to the following databases, thus making it available
to others with similar interest as well as supporting the national cause.
To my knowledge there are two "on line" products available,
both different and complementary in what they present and make available.
FIRSTLY:
the BTO BirdTrack, which hopefully everyone counting bird migration in
the UK already subscribes to and is familiar with.
See: http://www.bto.org/birdtrack/
Address: Dawn Balmer
British Trust for Ornithology
The Nunnery, Thetford, Norfolk IP24 2PU
For information please contact Dawn at the BTO. Or to subscribe follow
the route on the BTO website.
SECONDLY:
the new Trektellen.nl "Migration Counts Great Britain"
http://www.trektellen.nl/default.asp?taal=2&land=5
or for the main site (select English), for The Netherlands, Belgium and
France:
http://www.trektellen.nl/
Personally, I already
contribute to BirdTrack and intend to contribute to Trektellen as well,
there being just so many ways to interrogate the Trektellen database easily,
that together with the BirdTrack weekly animations you can literally see
the birds move across the country as they arrive and on a day by day basis
(subject to enough data availability like there is in Holland) - just
what we need.
The Trektellen database is designed by Jethro Waanders and programmed by Jethro Waanders & Gerard Troost. For information please contact the webmaster Gerard Troost. Or to subscribe to the database please contact Jethro Waanders via the Trektellen.nl website.
If you have not seen, have a look at both, specifically the charting,
graphical and mapping representations, see what you think and please do
contribute, so your data is available for others with similar interests
locally, in other parts of the country, or abroad to compare. The data
from our members only watchpoint near Oxenhope is submitted to both organisations
to give you the readers or contributers to this weblog, maximum insight
as to the status on passage of the birds that we see.
There is also lots
and lots of scope for comparison, not just to bird migration in the UK
but in The Netherlands, Belgium and France as well!!
I am shortly to add
some links to the above websites for your assistance in browsing or adding
data to the databases. These will appear down the right hand side top
of this page.
Good Migration Counting, and now databasing!