National Audubon society's technology initiatives for bird conservation: a summary of application development for the Christmas bird count

Abstract

Since 1998, Audubon's Christmas Bird Count (CBC) has been supported by an Internet-based data entry application that was initially designed to accommodate the traditional paper-based methods of this long-running bird monitoring program. The first efforts to computerize the data and the entry procedures have informed a planned strategy to revise the current technology tools supporting the needs of the CBC. A tightly integrated life-cycle development path, outlined within, has now been employed to revise the CBC application. This document will give a brief overview of this process.

Parent Publication

• Bird Conservation Implementation and Integration in the Americas: Proceedings of the Third International Partners in Flight Conference. 2002 March 20-24; Asilomar, California, Volume 1 and 2

Citation

Dale, Kathy. 2005. National Audubon society''s technology initiatives for bird conservation: a summary of application development for the Christmas bird count. In: Ralph, C. John; Rich, Terrell D., editors 2005. Bird Conservation Implementation and Integration in the Americas: Proceedings of the Third International Partners in Flight Conference. 2002 March 20-24; Asilomar, California, Volume 2 Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-191. Albany, CA: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station: p. 1021-1024