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09-01-2007

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Past and present visitors to the Caribbean are being asked to dust off their notebooks and dig out their holiday bird sightings in a bid to increase knowledge and understanding of bird distribution and status in the Caribbean.

Conservationists within the BirdLife Caribbean Program are looking to the birdwatching world to help reverse this trend by submitting their sightings on Caribbean Birds, part of a global internet-based recording facility.

The Caribbean Birds initiative enables users to store and manage their own observations, extract reports and print or download maps. As well as contributing their own observations, visitors to the website can also view other people's records; a potentially important resource for a region that is popular with nature tourists keen on seeing the region’s numerous bird species.

Caribbean Birds is part of Worldbirds, a joint initiative by BirdLife International and two of its Partners, the RSPB (BirdLife in the UK) and Audubon (BirdLife in the US). It links together existing and new internet-systems to collect and report on bird populations and movements in different countries around the world.