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Wow! 88% done and only one more workflow to go--Nest Attempts. Congratulations everyone, we are almost there. While this last workflow often takes the longest, it is some of the most important data we collect. Let's get this done, together.
These harbingers-of-spring have been declining in northwest, northeast, and southwest regions of the United States, help us find out why!
Learn more+14,000 northeast cards are active! All our robins cards are now being transcribed. Just remember slow and steady wins the race. Thank you for your continued help with this immense dataset.
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Biologists spend countless hours trying to find and monitor nests to understand reproductive success in birds, but the scale at which individuals can do this is minuscule compared to NestWatch. If we want to understand why many bird populations are in decline, measuring large scale changes in reproductive success is incredibly powerful. --Emma Greig, Project
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About Nest Quest Go: Robins
Join the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Citizen-Science Project, NestWatch in understanding the historical nesting patterns of robins. These familiar birds are of special interest due to current population data which suggests declining American Robin populations in: northeast, Mississippi River Valley, southwest, and northwestern regions of the United States.
These nest record cards are a subset of a larger collection of more than 300,000 nest records that NestWatch is working on digitizing and transcribing. Valuable scientific questions can be asked and answered regarding the nesting behavior of birds over time by examining historical records. We hope to bring new discoveries to light using these previously hidden datasets.