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The goal of the AKN is to understand the patterns and dynamics of bird populations across the Western Hemisphere.

The AKN now accepts bird banding data!

Up to this point, the Avian Knowledge Network (AKN) had accepted only field observations of birds, and did not provide a schema adequate to describe the additional complexity of bird banding datasets. With the release of a banding extension to the Bird Monitoring Data Exchange (BMDE-Banding version 1.38), we now accept bird banding data as well! The extension adds some 485 fields to the BMDE (for a total of 515 fields) and allow us to describe in detail almost every measurement contained in bird banding data sets. Read on »

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