Cobirds and Ebirds reports

[Norm Erthal]

I have been noticing that some really good rare birds have been showing up on Ebirds and not Cobirds. There are some problems with this. It is difficult to access Ebird sightings after a week while on Cobirds are there forever. I would urge reporting the rare nirds to both and continue the reporting of regular species to Ebird

Norm Erthal

Arvada, CO

[The "Nunn Guy"]

Anyway to connect the two? Good database practice says "enter data
once"--also facilitates a better customer experience (not having
customer to enter data in multiple instances). I would think the
good folks at eBird can "flag" rare birds and send data to this list?
And you would think Google had the facility to be able to import it.

I know "pipe dream" but one can dream ...

Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn
http://coloradobirder.ning.com/
Mobile: http://coloradobirder.ning.com/m

[Paul Hurtado]

I would also like encourage posting rarities to CoBirds even if they are submitted to eBird, however in practice I know this sometimes just doesn't happen, or doesn't happen as quickly as some might like. I myself have been guilty of this! So what's the solution?

I would encourage statewide RBA compilers to consider checking the Colorado Rare Bird Alerts in eBird. It's fast and easy to do, and eBird account holders can even have those alerts sent to their email addresses, either hourly or daily, if they so choose.

Note that these alerts include more than just rarities: they are all of the birds "flagged" for confirmation during the eBird checklist submission process observed in the past 7 days. So all reported rarities as well as reports of unusually high counts and out-of-season birds will appear in these Alerts.

To access the eBird Rare Bird Alert for Colorado, click here:
http://ebird.org/ebird/alert/summary?sid=SN35566

You can also check county-level Rarity Alerts (and alerts for other states) by going here and typing in the county name to select that county in CO:
http://ebird.org/ebird/alerts

Good birding,
Paul Hurtado
Columbus OH and Pueblo CO

[Peter Burke]

Gary & COBirds,

In my old stomping grounds of New Jersey, Sam Galick, who is an eBird regional editor, created a New Jersey map of rare sightings that I believe is linked directly to the eBird database.  Here is a link to the site:

https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=203972922394275048173.0004d34a1a115d5233e40&msa=0&ll=40.665617,-74.931677&spn=0.002787,0.006539

I wouldn't begin to know how to create a map like this, but clearly it exists.  ...anyone know a birder who can code?

Happy Birding!

Peter Burke

Boulder,CO

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[Jeff Witters]

No hard numbers to back this up, but in the almost six years since moving to KS I've seen the use of our the state listserv drop steadily as eBird and social media platforms (FB) have steadily increased membership/use.  The big driver is increased smartphone use (http://pewinternet.org/Infographics/2012/Our-Smartphone-Habits.aspx).  As someone who just finally got on eBird last month and cannot pay to have the internet in my hand, it is frustrating to see the trend, but there are big advantages of also getting on the other platforms for birders.  Given the trends, I'll eventually have to pay up and then find like everyone else I can't live without my smartphone.

 

If it makes anyone feel better, COBIRDS postings still substantially outnumber KSBIRDS postings most days!

 

Jeff Witters

Olathe, KS

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[Bryan Guarente]

I used to have a working map of the Colorado "Notables".  For some reason it has stopped working and I worked on the code tonight to try to fix it, but to no avail.  I have contacted the support crew for the eBird backend to see what I can find out about what I am doing wrong.

For your information, the map used to be a Google Earth Plugin map that displayed anywhere from the last day to last 30 days worth of notable Colorado birds.  "Notable" in this case means any eBird record that caused a flag to be raised to the eBird regional reviewers.  This can be a rarity (Iceland Gull as an example), a large number of individuals (let's say someone reported 10,000 Red-winged Blackbirds), or a bird out of season (recent sightings of American White Pelican).  I will let the list know if this gets back up and running some time in the near future.

 

Bryan Guarente
Instructional Designer
The COMET Program
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, CO