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TASL data forms
Folks:
TASL data is prepared and reported so that it dovetails with eBird. Data transfer to eBird is facilitated using a standard excel reporting form, provided here. The top 14 rows of the excel sheet are used for eBird housekeeping:
TASL location: I have entered the official site number for each of your stops. If I entered a wrong number or code, please fix it and let me know.
Latitude, longitude: Don't worry about these.
Date: I entered the date of the next census, 11/23/2008. It needs to be at the top of each column.
Time: Record the time when you are entering the data, at the end of the stop.
State, country and count type: Already entered.
Observers: Enter names once. You don't have to repeat for each column.
Minutes: This is important. Give the minutes you spent at the site.
All species reported? For most of us, that would be an N. I already discussed this with Marshall Illif. He says even if you put an x to show that a species was present, that is more information than if you enter absolutely nothing. However, I find it hard to break old habits. I really don't notice the pigeons, mockingbirds or crows.
Miles, acres: Don't worry about these.
Comments: I put the names of the sites in this space. Please review and send me corrections.
Data sheets for each Harbor sector are in a separate file:
Nahant
Winthrop—Broad Sound
Deer Island
Winthrop Harbor
East Boston to South Boston
Neponset to L Street Beach
Squantum—Long Island
Hough's Neck
Weymouth
Hull
Here is the older paper data sheet.
TASL winter data sheet (paper)
Soheil
last updated: 2008.10.23
url: http://www.gis.net/~szendeh/tdatasheets.htm
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