12 March 2024

It’s server migration season on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

For 2 days subsequent week these Cornell Lab of Ornithology providers shall be down as they migrate from native servers to the cloud.

The next Cornell Lab providers shall be unavailable beginning 6am ET March 19 till 6am ET March 21:

• eBird.org, together with eBird portals and e-mail Alerts
• eBird API and knowledge merchandise
• Merlin Hen ID save sightings and refresh life listing (solely current areas shall be accessible for ID and Discover)
• BirdCast alerts and migration dashboard
• Macaulay Library
• Birds of the World
• Hen Academy

Additionally, you will not have the ability to entry any applications that require logging in along with your Cornell Lab account through the outage.

— Crew eBird information, Upcoming Upkeep: Cornell Lab Companies Will Be Unavailable 19-21 March

I do know from private expertise (my profession in Info Know-how) that there’s actually no good time to do a server migration and it all the time takes longer than customers need it to. Cornell Lab says they’re migrating 1.6 billion chook observations and that if it goes very well some providers could also be up late on 20 March.

Throughout the outage eBird will nonetheless work in your cell phone in offline mode. This characteristic was constructed into the app way back as a result of the most effective birds are far-off from cell towers.

So grasp tight whereas Cornell Lab knowledge goes into hiding for 2 days.

Learn extra at Crew eBird information: Upcoming Upkeep: Cornell Lab Companies Will Be Unavailable 19-21 March.

(black-winged stilts photograph from Wikimedia Commons; logos from Cornell Lab of Ornithology; eBird screenshot from my cell phone)