ChirpTracker is a revolutionary concept that provides technological enhancements to birding hobbyists by birders, for birders. ChirpTracker utilizes the integration of satellite mapping technology with a community-based environment to steer the hobby of birding enjoyed outdoors, into the virtual realm of social media to provide a rich conservational, educational, user, and data driven platform to uncover new bird species locations around the country.
ChirpTracker’s media-rich environment provides the birding community with the capabilities to assist in the plotting of bird sightings geographically, logging and maintainance of life lists, and the sharing of user’s personal profile activities with other birding enthusiasts.
To accompany a user-driven precinct, professionally researched data has been aggregated to provide the birding commonwealth with the ability to track migration patterns geographically and to assist in the identification of bird species. Users will acquire supplemental knowledge from ChirpTracker’s hopeful partnerships in ornithology to form community-wide support of birding organizations and research affiliates.
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Have you heard of ChirpTracker? According to their Twitter feed, they’re looking for birders with iPhones. And according to their FaceBook page:
“ChirpTracker is a revolutionary concept that provides technological enhancements to birding hobbyists by birders, for birders. ChirpTracker utilizes the integration of satellite mapping technology with a community-based environment to steer the hobby of birding enjoyed outdoors, into the virtual realm of social media to provide a rich conservational, educational, user, and data driven platform to uncover new bird species locations around the country.”
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Sounds cool. When do we get to find out more about it?