Report on: Birding with your Phone

HAS was delighted to welcome Ken Elkins, Director of the Coastal Center at Milford Point for the Connecticut Audubon Society, for our fifth year presenting Birding With Your Phone. In this virtual workshop, Ken presented and demonstrated numerous birding apps, answered questions, and guided the large group of birders in how to improve our birding skills using apps on our phones and computers. He included the Audubon bird guide, the Warbler guide, and Birdnet, and spent considerable time teaching about the ways to make Merlin’s spectrographs, photographs, and links to eBird more productive in the field. He gave tips for recording sound and how to link to eBird’s lists. He also described a variety of other apps of interest, such as Seek, iNaturalist and Windy.com