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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 »