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Why should you participate? Besides having a lot of fun and fresh air, and helping build the Thousand Eyes database, there are lots of things that you can do as a watcher on the website. - learn how to make accurate observations (data) that will help us all understand more about our natural environment;
 - learn how to accurately record and submit these observations so they can be used by our climate change scientists;
- practice your computer skills, and learn how to use the world wide web;
- compare your results with those of other watchers in your area, or across the province;
- read the bulletin board to find out other neat things watchers are doing;
- ask questions about the project, and about the things you are being asked to observe;
- be part of the Thousand Eyes project team and work with lots of other people.
And coming this summer, you'll be able to: - look at the results from 100 years ago to see what the natural environment was like back then;
- create maps that have all sorts of natural observation facts on them, from your backyard to province-wide;
- create maps that display only your observations.
Being a registered watcher You can become an individual watcher, or a member of a watch group. Each group will have a leader who will be responsible for the information the group collects. Each group member will be given a handy field guide to help make identification easy, and to give you a neat place to keep your field notes.  Other participants can download the field guide directly from the website. More information is available when you go to the 'how to become a watcher' page - you can read this without having to register, but we hope you will! If you are not sure about registering as a watcher, you are very welcome to browse through the site as a guest, but you will not be able to enter information - you must be registered as a watcher to be able to do this. |
