lease join us in congratulating Ed Corey of Raleigh, North Carolina, winner of the February 2016 sponsored by Carl Zeiss Sports Optic. Our February winner was drawn from among those who submitted at least 15 eligible checklists using eBird Mobile in February. Ed’s name was drawn randomly from the 2,427 eBirders who achieved the February challenge threshold. Ed will receive newfor his eBirding efforts. We asked Ed to tell us a little more about himself, his use of eBird, and his love of birds – read on for more!
“My name is Ed Corey, and I’m an eBirder.” They say the first step to recovery is accepting it, right? For roughly the past 10 years, I’ve enjoyed tracking my progress as a birder, chasing rare birds and logging my lifelist. Challenging myself from year to year, county to county, has become a fire that drives me to get out and observe birds all across North Carolina, but also in recent years to new and different places such as Southeast Arizona and San Diego County.
The versatility of eBird has become essential to my work with the NC Division of Parks and Recreation. As the Inventory Biologist for the division, I am tasked with tracking rare and uncommon species in the state park units throughout NC.
Over the last few years, I’ve been fortunate enough to get out in the field with a group of like-minded birders near Raleigh, my base of operations. This group of friends has been integral to helping me further my knowledge and appreciation of birds, from encouraging me to get out on out of Cape Hatteras, to chasing to gathering and discussing our birding finds over tasty beverages every few months. It’s great to have a repository into which we can log those finds, and fun to add some “competition” in the form of the for state and counties!
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