Help Build the Sister Bird Club Network

          Neotropical migratory birds link birders throughout the Americas.  Many species of Warblers, Vireos, Orioles, Flycatchers, and Shorebirds breed in Canada and the U.S. and winter in Central and South America.  Birders who live and enjoy encountering birds

Ever think about the people in other parts of a bird's

migratory pathway that observe the same birds that you see?

Wouldn't it be neat to know what those other people think

about those birds, and know what they do to help with bird

conservation?

all along the migratory pathways of these birds have an incentive to know what is going on with those birds and the habitats on which

they depend when those birds are away from a Club's geographic area.  In an effort to facilitate this, I have been working with others to establish a Sister Bird Club Network.  You can read about that effort here.

   
               We've also designed a website to provide more information about the Sister Bird Club Network, to provide a way for people to join the Network, and facilitate their interaction.  Now, we need your help to further design the website.  You can view the draft site at the Sister Bird Club Network.
    
          The core aspect of this site will be a searchable database of information about clubs, individuals, and other groups who make up the network.  To create that database, we need to make available an electronic form through which we can collect information that people in the network need to have.  This is where you come in.

          What do you want to know about other clubs?  What do you want those clubs to know about your club?  So far, we have had inquiries from school teachers and members of youth clubs who

want to link up with groups of students or other youth clubs as part of a school project following bird migration.  We have had clubs say they want to be able to write a column about birds and bird conservation in their home country and "publish" it in newsletters of clubs in other parts of the migration pathways.  We have had clubs mention that they want to put together visits to other clubs.  Some clubs want to focus on bird conservation efforts.  Others want more of a social relationship among their members.

          Anything is possible, but only if you tell us what you want.  Please look over the draft website.  Then send me comments by email at jodyenck@gmail.com. 

          Thanks in advance for your help!