INVITATION TOOBSERVE

摘要

Back in 2008, it brought to mind a collection of maps collated into a travel guide, or a dusty compen dium pulled off the library shelf once a year.But then I volunteered on an atlas project that plotted birds, rather than towns, roads, and rivers, and I realized quickly how fun, and valuable, an atlas could be. I contributed to the British Columbia Breeding Bird Atlas, which from 2008 to 2012 drewon the know-how of a number of professional ornithologists and the skills of hundreds of volunteer birders like me to assemble information on birds' distribution, their abundance, the status of rare and colonial species, and in particular, where birds reproduce in the province.