Data Submission

If you have started your monitoring or will soon, please remember to submit your data and information as soon as you can after your trip to the beach. This is done via the electronic submission form in the upper-right hand column of our blog (http://ctwaterbirds.blogspot.com) titled, "Online Data Submission Form". The simple Google form can also be found directly at this address: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/13i9JBfV0MYQdHhGq3n3C348S78M--5c3JpWKUIbbYlI/

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 all data. This includes negative data - if you did not see any birds, please select any species from the dropdown menu, report zero, and enter all your other information (date, time, location, etc.). 

You can always feel free to email a question such as help for a shorebird identification or to add something to your submission. 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 our 2022 AAfCW new volunteer monitor online training sessions is here on YouTube as a refresher at any time: https://youtu.be/E0putp6rFn4

Thanks and best,

Scott Kruitbosch
AAfCW Volunteer Coordinator