Official Monitor Data Submission

Good afternoon, all!

This message is for our official 2020 AAfCW monitors. We continue to work on confirming everything with you - your ability to participate in 2020, your beach(es) and schedules, what materials you need mailed to you or not, and collecting addresses. Please bear in mind that for now, Griswold Point is unavailable to monitor. We have heard back from West Haven and hopefully parking passes will be going out soon. CT DEEP will be sending out lanyards, badges and forms for those who require them.

When it comes to data submission, we would like all monitors to please submit using this simple Google form at this address: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/13i9JBfV0MYQdHhGq3n3C348S78M--5c3JpWKUIbbYlI/

It is also in the right-hand column of our blog under Important Documents as "Online Data Submission Form". This form has numerous advantages in that it prompts you for the required details of your survey. You will not have to worry about forgetting something or omitting data. All of your information for each species can be easily viewed by staff at a moment's notice. We can also go in and change it if an error is made, so no worries there.

Please use that form to submit data and information instead of emails. You can always feel free to email a question such as help for a shorebird identification. You should also always email us and CT DEEP as soon as possible when it comes to any significant disturbances, new nests or lost nests, hatched young, photos or signs of a predator, and anything CT DEEP and AAfCW need to know right away, besides including this information in your submitted form.

Don't forget one of our 2020 AAfCW volunteer monitor online training sessions is here on YouTube as a refresher at any time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEnr3KOVNpU

Thank you so much, and we will all keep working hard to get the 2020 season underway while still working nonstop in the field to keep up with our birds.

Best,
Scott Kruitbosch
AAfCW Volunteer Coordinator
RTPI Manager of Connecticut Programs