Date: 1/12/26 9:43 am From: Tom Edell via groups.io <TEdell...> Subject: [slocobirding] FW: [CALBIRDS] California Bird Atlas: First Week Report
Please consider participating in the atlas project.
Tom Edell
Cayucos, CA
From: <CALBIRDS...> <CALBIRDS...> On Behalf Of Van Pierszalowski via groups.io
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2026 3:32 PM
To: <CALBIRDS...>
Subject: [CALBIRDS] California Bird Atlas: First Week Report
Hi Birders,
As previously announced, California’s first statewide Bird Atlas officially launched on January 1, 2026 and will run through December 31, 2030. If you haven’t joined yet, this short Quick Start video <https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8Z3kbqiO9rw> walks through how to participate and submit checklists via the <https://ebird.org/atlascalifornia/home> California Bird Atlas eBird project. As a reminder, we encourage all California eBirders to submit all checklists through the Atlas project, whether or not breeding behavior is observed.
We’re excited to share that the Atlas is off to an incredible start. The level of enthusiasm and engagement in just the first week has exceeded all expectations.
In the first seven days of 2026 alone:
* 445 atlasers submitted 2,656 checklists
* Coverage spanned 831 atlas blocks across 51 counties
* 2,865 observations were assigned breeding codes
* Confirmed breeding codes were reported for at least 15 species.
* Atlasers recorded 628,723 individual birds
Thank you to everyone contributing, and to those who have supported the project through the Donate link <https://donorbox.org/california-bird-atlas> . We’re just getting started.
We won’t spam this listserv with weekly updates every week, but we’ll continue to share periodic updates as appropriate.
