Are my data appropriate for eBird import?
If you’ve been keeping your bird records in some electronic form then they are likely appropriate for inclusion in eBird. When thinking about importing your existing records to eBird, you must first judge whether your data meet a few of our basic requirements. All records in eBird must have at minimum a specific date, location, and species list. Numbers for each species are preferable but not required. If you have records of birds with at least this much information, then you can move forward with the import process. If your data lack any of these basic requirements, we’re sorry but you can’t proceed. eBird is not a listing program; it is a scientific database of bird records. As such, your data need to have real dates and locations to be included in eBird.
