README.md

Best Practices for Using eBird Data

This repository contains the source for the Best Practices for Using eBird Data guide, which is a supplement to Analytical guidelines to increase the value of community science data: An example using eBird data to estimate species distributions ((Johnston et al. 2021)(https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ddi.13271)).

Installation

The R packages used in this guide can be installed with:

if (!requireNamespace("remotes", quietly = TRUE)) {
  install.packages("remotes")
}
remotes::install_github("ebird/ebird-best-practices")

Please cite this guide as:

Strimas-Mackey, M., W.M. Hochachka, V. Ruiz-Gutierrez, O.J. Robinson, E.T. Miller, T. Auer, S. Kelling, D. Fink, A. Johnston. 2023. Best Practices for Using eBird Data. Version 2.0. https://ebird.github.io/ebird-best-practices/. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York.