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Record Breaking Global Big Day Results

A MASSIVE THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO TOOK PART 

ONCE AGAIN THE EVENT HAS BROKEN WORLD RECORDS


See the full results on eBird's Global Big Day page.  

Global Big Day Results page

Full eBird Global Big Day Report

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of eBird! 

Twenty years after eBird’s launch, more than 51,000 people spanning 201 countries set incredible new records for the most species reported and most countries birding, all in a single day

Scroll down for reports from some of the Global Birding Teams taking part

Thanks to everyone

Full ebird report

Are YOU ready for Global Big Day 14 May?

Check out this great video from Leon Moore and Team Guyana

Birding Live on Location Friday 13 May with Swarovski Optik

Take a trip birding around the world ahead of Global Big Day!

Celebrate 100 Years of BirdLife International

10 Years to Save the Planet

Win a pair of Swarovski CL Companion binoculars.

Win a pair of Swarovski CL Companion binoculars.

Join BirdLife and Global Birding for Global Big Day 2022 on 14th May 2022. Fundraise while you count birds and fight the climate and biodiversity crisis. 

Win a pair of Swarovski CL Companion binoculars.

Win a pair of Swarovski CL Companion binoculars.

Win a pair of Swarovski CL Companion binoculars.

Sign up for a fundraiser now for your chance to win a pair of Swarovski CL Companion binoculars. 

Win a pair of Swarovski Optik Binoculars

What will happen for Global Big Day 2022?

Will you be taking part?

We hope that more people than ever are aware of the natural environment around them. 

Taking part in Global Big Day means that essential data about birds across the world is gathered for research through eBird

As amazing citizen scientists, you all make a difference by showing you care.

Thank you.

Barn Swallows make amazing journeys on migration but have many challenges

Previously... Global Big Day 2021 saw this..

4 WORLD RECORDS IN  1 EVENT


7,234 SPECIES

192 COUNTRIES

51,816 PARTICIPANTS

133,887 CHECKLISTS

1 BILLIONTH record submitted to eBird during Global Big Day, 

8 May 2021

Full report


How You can Join In - as a Team or an Individual

Everyone across the Globe can join in the biggest birdwatching event of the year

WHO CAN TAKE PART?

What if I'm new to birdwatching or I have never used eBird?

HOW DO I TAKE PART?

EVERYONE CAN TAKE PART

JOIN IN!

1. EITHER GET A TEAM TOGETHER OR JOIN IN AS AN INDIVIDUAL


We do not encourage international travelling for this event.  We ask people to stay in their own country and ideally close to home to minimise our carbon footprint.

So wherever you are in the world; in your garden, your local park or nature reserve, by a

EVERYONE CAN TAKE PART

JOIN IN!

1. EITHER GET A TEAM TOGETHER OR JOIN IN AS AN INDIVIDUAL


We do not encourage international travelling for this event.  We ask people to stay in their own country and ideally close to home to minimise our carbon footprint.

So wherever you are in the world; in your garden, your local park or nature reserve, by a wetland or the ocean, deep in a forest of hight up in the remotest mountains, every bird sighting counts.


EVERY SPECIES COUNTS -from the most common to the rarest.  Each bird is as important as the next.


Register with eBird to ensure all your sightings are recorded.

Join your friends and enjoy the birds around you for Global Big Day

HOW DO I TAKE PART?

What if I'm new to birdwatching or I have never used eBird?

HOW DO I TAKE PART?

We are working in association with eBird, which is a project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in the USA.  


 1. Get an eBird account - this is free to all users


 2. ON SATURDAY 14 MAY GO OUT BIRDWATCHING AND ENJOY WHAT YOU SEE - with family, friends, groups or just take time out on your own.


 3. Enter what you see and/or hear on eBird 


 4. W

We are working in association with eBird, which is a project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in the USA.  


 1. Get an eBird account - this is free to all users


 2. ON SATURDAY 14 MAY GO OUT BIRDWATCHING AND ENJOY WHAT YOU SEE - with family, friends, groups or just take time out on your own.


 3. Enter what you see and/or hear on eBird 


 4. Watch the sightings roll in on eBird's Global Big Day page


5.  Keep posting your photos and videos during the day on our social media pages  #globalbirdweekend


sign up for your individual ebird account
New to birdwatching? Join a group, make new friends & learn about the birds around your area

What if I'm new to birdwatching or I have never used eBird?

What if I'm new to birdwatching or I have never used eBird?

What if I'm new to birdwatching or I have never used eBird?

"Discover how eBird can support your passion for birds and how your participation can help us better understand them. Birder, bird watcher, or bird lover, it doesn’t matter—this course is for you. Whether you watch birds at your feeder or on the way to work, or travel miles for that one bird you can’t wait to see, eBird can help. This fre

"Discover how eBird can support your passion for birds and how your participation can help us better understand them. Birder, bird watcher, or bird lover, it doesn’t matter—this course is for you. Whether you watch birds at your feeder or on the way to work, or travel miles for that one bird you can’t wait to see, eBird can help. This free course guides you through how to get the most out of your eBirding experiences and invites you to become a part of this worldwide project".

Global Birding hopes that this excellent video will help you and encourage you to take part in our Global Big Day.

We believe that this excellent guide will be of benefit to all.  Click on the link below to get started!

Birding Essentials Video

Team Registration

Got a Great Team Together?

If your team has registered & participated with us before you still need to register for this event. Anyone can make a team! Clubs, Bird Guides, Young Ornithologists or a group of friends or family. Local or international: Why not make a Flyway team?

If your team has registered & participated with us before you still need to register for this event. Anyone can make a team! Clubs, Bird Guides, Young Ornithologists or a group of friends or family. Local or international: Why not make a Flyway team?

Your team will appear on our website in order of registration - showcase the birds you see and share them across the globe.

Create a team eBird account first & then you can register your team here at Global Birding. Remember, to appear on our team ranking you must have the word TEAM in your team name eg. Global Birding TEAM

Need help setting up an eBird team account?

Help me set up eBird team account please!

Set up eBird team account

If your team has registered & participated with us before you still need to register for this event. Anyone can make a team! Clubs, Bird Guides, Young Ornithologists or a group of friends or family. Local or international: Why not make a Flyway team?

If your team has registered & participated with us before you still need to register for this event. Anyone can make a team! Clubs, Bird Guides, Young Ornithologists or a group of friends or family. Local or international: Why not make a Flyway team?

If your team has registered & participated with us before you still need to register for this event. Anyone can make a team! Clubs, Bird Guides, Young Ornithologists or a group of friends or family. Local or international: Why not make a Flyway team?

Don't be shy!

Get a great team image together, create a Team eBird account and register here - then you're all ready to go!


Ask your team members to register as individuals so we can see where your team represents

Register your team here SOON

Individual Registration

Join in to make an EVEN BIGGER, Low Carbon Global Birdwatching Event

Participate! Stay Local, Go Birding and let us know how many species you see

Participate! Stay Local, Go Birding and let us know how many species you see





Will you be able to say you took part?

INDIVIDUALS Register Here

Participate! Stay Local, Go Birding and let us know how many species you see

Participate! Stay Local, Go Birding and let us know how many species you see

Participate! Stay Local, Go Birding and let us know how many species you see




Register on our website then go to eBird and get started

Join Ebird as an Individual

We want to thank you all at Global Birdfair 2022

A new place for Global Birders to meet

We are delighted to announce the launch of Global Birdfair to be held in Rutland, UK this July at the Rutland Showground, Oakham.

Global Birdfair will provide a platform for conservaiton organisations, nature tourism providers, publishers and books sellers, optical companies and other organisations involved in the enjoyment and promotion of wildlife conservation around the world to gather to share their experiences and ideas.  There will be lectures and events on offer and we will be celebrating BirdLife International's 100 year anniversary.  

We hope you can join us as an exhibitor or visitor and we will be announcing more details soon.

In the meantime, please visit our website and watch for the latest updates

www.globalbirdfair.org

Thank you to all the amazing Global Birding Community for being such inspirations.

Visit Global Birdfair 2022

Covid 19 - Safety and Respect for People and the Environment

  • IMPORTANT NOTICE 


  • TO ALL PARTICIPANTS OF GLOBAL BIG DAY


  • YOUR SAFETY AND THAT OF OTHERS IS PARAMOUNT.


  • PLEASE RESPECT ALL LOCAL AND NATIONAL GUIDELINES REGARDING COVID 19 WHILST TAKING PART IN GLOBAL BIG DAY. Read eBird's advice to Bird Mindfully


  • NEITHER GLOBAL BIRDING NOR ANY ASSOCIATES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR PUBLIC LIABILITY FOR PARTICIPANTS  TAKING PART IN THE EVENT.


IF YOU HAVE ANY DOUBTS PLEASE STAY AT HOME & STAY SAFE

YOU CAN FOLLOW OUR PROGRESS FROM AROUND THE WORLD VIA EBIRD AND ON OUR SOCIAL MEDIA PAGES IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO GO OUT BIRDWATCHING 

Your Global Big Day Instructions - Please read!

Dear Global Birding Friends!

First of all a BIG THANK YOU for registering at www.globalbirding.org to take part in 

GLOBAL BIG DAY on 14 May 2022

We are amazed by the level of support and grateful to all of you.  


Follow the progress of the day here with eBird

Take a minute to look at our teams page -  if your team is on there you can ask your friends to support you and donate via your fundraising links.


What’s happens on Global Big Day?


Saturday 14 May 2022

GO OUT BIRDING!, log your sightings in eBird as part of  Global Big Day.  

Help our World Record attempt for the number of species seen and the number of people taking part in a birdwatching event. 


New to eBird? Get started here https://support.ebird.org/en/support/solutions/articles/48001158707-get-started-with-ebird


Submit your photographs and audio recordings to eBird.  If you are unsure about how to do this, please check this link https://ebird.org/news/a-new-way-to-upload-and-tag-photos-and-sounds 

Sharing some of your images and videos to eBird as well as social media will create an incredible record of the event for everyone to enjoy. 


A Few Reminders for Everyone

Here are a few reminders for everyone, whether you have registered as an Individual or a Team.  Please take a few minutes to do your own checklist so you are ready for Global Big Day.


Safety

This is our number one priority.  We want everyone to enjoy Global Bird Weekend while remaining safe at all times.  Please ensure when taking part you comply with any local rules  regarding access to locations and any Covid-19 restrictions.  

Please respect your fellow citizens and the environment.


Social Media

Please: 

Follow us on social media and keep up to date with what’s happening! 

Share and retweet our posts to reach a bigger global audience.  

Use #globalbirdweekend

Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/globalbirdweekend 

Twitter       https://twitter.com/global_birding

Instagram Global Birding

eBird for Individuals

Please make sure you have your eBird account ready for the Big Day! 

If you need to open an eBird Account, please go to https://ebird.org/home to sign up and make sure you are familiar with how to use eBird before Global Big Day!

Question: Is there a time limit on submitting lists to eBird so they count towards Global Bird Weekend?

Answer: Ideally, submit your list on Saturday 14 May - Global Big Day! - eBird can then produce a real time daily total and give information about how many people are out listing for the event as it happens! You can watch the lists roll in on eBird’s Global Big Day page.  The number of species submitted will be updated every few minutes throughout the day.

Please contact us on info@globalbirding.org if you have any questions. 

TEAM REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Please encourage all your team members to register as individuals on our website  https://globalbirding.org/individual-registration 


EBIRD TEAM ACCOUNT

Have you managed to set up your eBird Team account? There are instructions for this on our website https://globalbirding.org/ebird-team-information

Hopefully we can answer a couple of questions about this here:

Question: Does EVERYONE on the team have to submit their own individual list to eBird as well as the complete group or team list?

Answer: Ideally, YES! Once everyone has got their own lists, then each team member submits their lists individually AND then shares their lists to their Team Leader who submits the complete Team List to eBird.

If someone on your team doesn’t have eBird or the suitable equipment to upload their lists, then they can communicate what they have seen to their Team Leader who can add their sightings manually on the Team Leader eBird account.

Question: Is there a time limit on submitting lists to eBird so they count towards Global Big Day?

Answer: Ideally, submit your lists on Saturday 14 May! - eBird can then produce a real time daily rolling total of species recorded and show how many people are out listing for the event as it happens! You can watch the lists roll in on eBird’s Global Big Day page.  The number of species submitted will be updated every few minutes throughout the day.


ABOVE ALL HAVE A GREAT FUN GLOBAL BIG DAY!!!

THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR AMAZING SUPPORT


TIM APPLETON  FOUNDER - GLOBAL BIRDING


Global Birding Team
Keep in touch - thanks for your support

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Global Birding - founded by Tim Appleton MBE.
Logo created by John Cox, UK Artist

Global Birding is delighted to bring together the world of birding so everyone can enjoy the birds and nature around them.  Our first event not only made s a massive contribution to science, it created a world leading birdwatching event supporting a vital conservation project.  Join us again for another great event.

 Tim Appleton MBE, founder of Global Birding, is also available for consultancy on projects relating to his knowledge of Eco Tourism, nature reserve creation and management, wetlands projects, birdfairs.  Please contact us to discuss your requirements.

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Your sightings contribute to hundreds of conservation decisions and peer-reviewed papers, thousands of student projects, and help inform bird research worldwide.; as well as all this, it is helping create a world record and supporting a vital conservation project.


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BirdLife International is the world’s largest nature conservation partnership, connecting and co-ordinating the work of national conservation organisations in over 100 countries. BirdLife is widely recognised as the world leader in bird conservation. Rigorous science, informed by practical feedback from projects on the ground in important sites and habitats, enables us to implement successful conservation programmes for birds and all nature. Our actions provide practical and sustainable solutions, significantly benefiting nature and people. 

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