Citizen Science: Wildlife Observation Data Collection
Many people enjoy observing wildlife in a variety of different ways. Occasionally there are opportunities for you to help the Bureau of Wildlife collect valuable data. In some cases this may require special effort but, in many cases all that is required is recording what you see while bird watching, hunting, hiking, scouting, etc. See the links below and in the right hand columm of this page for current volunteer opportunities and results of past efforts.
How You Can Help
- Volunteers are needed to help with Assessing Vegetation Impacts from Deer (AVID) (leaves DEC website).
- Submit your sightings of amphibians crossing roads in the spring.
- Record observations and trail camera photos of black bears and other mammals to help biologists study the distribution and abundance of these species in New York. Visit the iSeeMammals website (leaves DEC website) to learn how.
- Contribute to the Nightjar Survey (leaves DEC website) by helping to monitor the distribution and abundance of three members of the nightjar family: Eastern Whip-poor-will, Common Nighthawk, and Chuck-will's-widow. View Whip-poor-will, Common Nighthawk, and Chuck-will's-widow Distribution (PDF) to see their population decline from 1985 to 2005.
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