The Vermont Bird Records Committee depends upon birders in the field submitting rare bird reports in the state. Below are some tools to see whether or not your bird sighting warrants a rare bird report. If you're unsure or if you think that someone else may have also submitted a report of the same bird, contact your eBird reviewer.
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This form will check a single bird seen in any town in Vermont on any date and let you know if you should report it. It can't tell you if you should report a rare bird form for breeding birds or rare subspecies. If a bird isn't listed here, it likely hasn't been seen in the state and deserves a rare bird report. You can find out more on the VBRC site.
To check all of your observations from eBird, you can upload your data file below. This will check your eBird checklists for any birds which ought to be reported to the VBRC. This will only check submissions to your eBird account. It checks for Vermont-wide rare birds, breeding birds of note, birds outside of the Burlington Area, Lake Champlain, or the NEK, extreme rarities, subspecies of note, and birds which are present out of season.
It may be that some of the items listed here do not need to be submitted, such as when the observation is for a 'continuing' bird for which the initial observer made the required submission and/or certain shared checklists within eBird. Contact your eBird reviewer or VBRC if you are uncertain. Duplicate submissions are welcomed, however - better more people submit rare bird forms than less!
To use this, first download your data from eBird. Then, load the unzipped .csv file here. Your data is not stored on this site in any way. Both VCE and the VBRC curate and provide these lists publicly, for which I am grateful. This site is not directly affiliated with VCE, and I will strive to keep the reference data up to date. Note that this process can take some time.