Date: 9/2/25 4:50 am From: Lynn Erla Beegle (via carolinabirds Mailing List) <carolinabirds...> Subject: Please TURN OFF your NC Bird Atlas project on your ebird app -- the breeding season is over.
Time's up! Please TURN OFF your NC Bird Atlas project on your ebird app -- the breeding season is over (we do have one more Winter season coming in November). The Atlas project does not need data from September and October. And, the five-year Breeding Survey portion of the NCBA ended August 31, 2025, so any data added at this point will only have to be ignored in the database.
It's been a very active five years of collecting data, and we made great progress, even with severe damage from Hurricane Helene in the NC mountains and several storms along the Coastal Plain. The data is being examined and you can check it out, too. For example, here are all the locations where the LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE was CONFIRMED as breeders. Go to: https://ncbirdconservation.shinyapps.io/shinyapp_public/_w_492ee3a7/_w_e6d34889/_w_dc8e2aaa8cee4caba32464ae18805c40/? Then click on Species Map in the upper black bar, then type in the bird name. Remember, the Atlas project only collected data from the Priority Blocks, as the state is so large. But the blocks show the trends of breeding. Plus, we had a small percentage of devoted volunteers who followed all the guidelines, keeping their lists inside the Priority Blocks and keeping them under 1 mile and 1 hour, and carefully coding the breeding behavior (and not coding obvious migrants as 'singing', for example).
We have one more WINTER SEASON to collect data for the NC Bird Atlas, so we encourage you to turn your NCBA Project on again from November 1 through February 28, 2026. Remember, however, do not add breeding codes during this time (except for owls and a few year-round breeders). Wintering waterfowl are not considered to be breeders in North Carolina, and adding breeding codes to birds such as Tundra Swans has to be corrected.
For more information on the NC Bird Atlas, please visit http://ncbirdatlas.org/ and scroll down to the helpful links. And thank you to all the staff and volunteers who gave so much time to this worthy project!
Lynn Erla Beegle Raleigh, North Carolina (I'm a volunteer for the NCBA)
