12 March 2024
It’s server migration season on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
For 2 days subsequent week those Cornell Lab of Ornithology services and products can be down as they migrate from native servers to the cloud.
The next Cornell Lab services and products can be unavailable beginning 6am ET March 19 till 6am ET March 21:
- eBird.org, together with eBird portals and electronic mail Indicators
- eBird API and information merchandise
- Merlin Hen ID save sightings and refresh existence listing (most effective fresh places can be to be had for ID and Discover)
- BirdCast indicators and migration dashboard
- Macaulay Library
- Birds of the International
- Hen Academy
You’ll additionally now not be capable of get right of entry to any techniques that require logging in together with your Cornell Lab account all the way through the outage.
— Staff eBird information, Upcoming Repairs: Cornell Lab Services and products Will Be Unavailable 19-21 March
I do know from non-public revel in in Knowledge Era that there’s in point of fact no just right 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 chicken observations and that if it is going in point of fact neatly some services and products is also up overdue on 20 March.
Throughout the outage eBird will nonetheless paintings in your cell phone in offline mode. This option was once constructed into the app way back as a result of the most efficient birds are a ways clear of mobile towers.
So grasp tight whilst Cornell Lab information is going into hiding for 2 days.
Learn extra at Staff eBird information: Upcoming Repairs: Cornell Lab Services and products Will Be Unavailable 19-21 March.
(black-winged stilts photograph from Wikimedia Commons; emblems from Cornell Lab of Ornithology; eBird screenshot from my cell phone)