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Indiana’s photo voltaic eclipse is the right time to check birds. Here’s how

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The birds aren’t ready for Monday’s photo voltaic eclipse, and an Indiana University professor needs to see how they react together with your assist.

Kimberly Rosvall, an affiliate biology professor at IU, labored with Ph.D. pupil Liz Aquilar and groups throughout the IU campus to create a smartphone app that may assist her study fowl conduct throughout the eclipse.

SolarChook will let Hoosiers turn out to be citizen scientists for a day throughout the eclipse by serving to acquire information at a big scale.

What is SolarChook?

SolarChook is discovered on the Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store. It permits customers of all expertise ranges to assist doc fowl observations throughout the eclipse.

The app’s person interface will walk customers via the method.

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How to make use of SolarChook

The app recommends customers take observations earlier than, throughout and after totality. It doesn’t must be the identical fowl for every of those observations.

Users ought to discover a fowl and watch it for 30 seconds throughout the three time intervals. The app then permits customers to pick the behaviors they noticed the fowl doing. Once these are all checked off, customers will embody an approximate measurement of the fowl.

Behaviors to look out for embody:

  • Flying
  • Swimming
  • Singing/Calling
  • Walking
  • Sitting
  • Eating
  • Perching alone
  • Perching with different birds

The app’s purpose is to gather at the very least 1,000 observations.

Karl Schneider is an IndyStar surroundings reporter. You can attain him at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @karlstartswithk

IndyStar’s environmental reporting venture is made attainable via the beneficiant assist of the nonprofit Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust.

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