You are also welcome to participate in the conversation and you can insert your questions in the Facebook comments, and our behind the scenes team will relay those to us. So hello, all of you watching on Facebook.

And then we are also streaming live on Facebook. But if you run into anything, again, we’ve got folks behind the scenes who can help with that in the chat. So if you’ve got some sound issues or your video stops– things look good on our end so I always recommend tinkering with some of your own Zoom settings or restarting Zoom. We are only going to be using the chat for tech issues. So we’ve got some great colleagues behind the scenes who will help out with those. And some of the questions we’re going to be answering live with our panelists, and some of our questions we’re going to be answering in the actual Q&A box. For those of you on Zoom, you can use the Q&A button to ask your questions. There you should be able to either show or hide subtitles depending on what you need. So if you go to the bottom of your Zoom screen, there are three dots and the word more. And using some tech, so related tech or tech notes for you all before we get going.Ĭlosed captioning is available on Zoom. So we are going to talk about some really amazing tools related to birding today. Our mission is to advance leading edge research, education, and citizen science that helps solve pressing conservation challenges. We acknowledge the painful history of Gayogohónǫ’ dispossession, and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogohónǫ’ people, past and present, to these lands and waters.Īnd for those of you who aren’t familiar, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, we are home to a community of researchers and supporters from around the world who appreciate birds and the integral roles that they play in our ecosystems. The Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York state, and the United States of America. The Gayogohónǫ’ are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign nations with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. So because today’s webinar is being hosted from Ithaca, New York, where Cornell University resides, I want to read the land acknowledgment.Ĭornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogohónǫ’, the Cayuga Nation. So we will get into hearing from them in just a minute.īut first, I’m going to do a few announcements. Drew Webber and Marie Chappell all here today. Today we’re going to be talking about Merlin, this amazing tool to help you go out and identify birds, especially as the seasons are starting to change, at least in Ithaca, New York, where we’re hosting from. I’m just going to go through a few quick announcements and then we will get started.

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