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50 years SBAS has helped to preserve the
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This website was created as a resource for everything birding in Santa Barbara County. The goal is
simply to promote the activity of field birding in the county and to provide information to interested
birders. If you have comments about this website or would like more information about local birding,
please contact me.
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eBird Hotspot Gaps Project
The eBird Hotspot Gaps project aims to increase coverage of under-birded locations across the county. Participants visit
eBird hotspots on weeks with no prior visits in eBird’s historical record and submit complete checklists to eBird. Filling in
these data gaps increases our knowledge of the county’s avifauna and enables analysis to be done for individual hotspots
and wider areas. It could also turn up new or unexpected species for hotspots that have received less attention than they
deserve.
Here’s How It Works:
Additional Information
eBird Explore Tool
County Hotspots
eBird Hotspot FAQ’s
What is an eBird Hotspot?
Hotspots are public birding locations created by eBird users. Hotspots allow multiple birders to enter data into the same
shared location, creating aggregated results available through eBird's "Explore" tools
eBird Hotspot Gaps
Click the Google Spreadsheet
to open the list of weekly
eBird Hotspot gaps
01
Every week, administrators send
out an email with a list of
Hotspot gaps for the coming
week
02
The weekly email will contain a
short summary of which
Hotspots were covered in the
past week and by whom
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