Bird Tracks Gone

[Cheri Phillips]

Hi, What happened to the bird tracks rare bird report on the CFO home page? All I see now is a box to click to go to ebird. Perhaps it is just that I'm not familiar enough with ebird to know how to get current rare bird sightings like one could with the bird tracks report but this seems like a really poor substitute. Please bring it back!

Cheri Phillips
Centennial, CO

[Bryan Guarente]

Cheri and other COBirders,

I think it was just linking to this page essentially: http://ebird.org/ebird/alert/summary?sid=SN35566

That is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert generated by eBird.  It will be different than what is posted to COBirds each morning as that is compiled by hand.  The eBird Colorado Rare Bird Alert is generated by comparing the incoming lists with the expected birds in those areas at those times.  If the bird is either a high count (I think) or a rarity, it gets flagged and placed into this Alert.  

If you want to navigate to another alert (for say another state or county), you can do that here: http://ebird.org/ebird/alerts  From that page, you can enter a country, state, province, or county to get the rare bird alerts list for that area.

Hope that helps you for now.  

Bryan

Bryan Guarente

Instructional Designer/Meteorologist

UCAR/The COMET Program

Boulder, CO

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[Diana Beatty]

You can also set up your own alerts in ebird  so you can get personalized notifications about birds you haven't yet seen or birds in certain counties that are rare, etc.

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[Cheri Phillips]

Thank you! Yes this helps! I still miss it on the CFO and DFO Home page though.

Cheri Phillips
Centennial, CO

On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 at 9:48:02 AM UTC-7, Bryan Guarente wrote:

Cheri and other COBirders,

I think it was just linking to this page essentially: http://ebird.org/ebird/alert/summary?sid=SN35566

That is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert generated by eBird.  It will be different than what is posted to COBirds each morning as that is compiled by hand.  The eBird Colorado Rare Bird Alert is generated by comparing the incoming lists with the expected birds in those areas at those times.  If the bird is either a high count (I think) or a rarity, it gets flagged and placed into this Alert.  

If you want to navigate to another alert (for say another state or county), you can do that here: http://ebird.org/ebird/alerts  From that page, you can enter a country, state, province, or county to get the rare bird alerts list for that area.

Hope that helps you for now.  

Bryan

Bryan Guarente

Instructional Designer/Meteorologist

UCAR/The COMET Program

Boulder, CO

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Cheri Phillips <rich...@q.com> wrote:

Hi, What happened to the bird tracks rare bird report on the CFO home page? All I see now is a box to click to go to ebird. Perhaps it is just that I'm not familiar enough with ebird to know how to get current rare bird sightings like one could with the bird tracks report but this seems like a really poor substitute. Please bring it back!

Cheri Phillips
Centennial, CO

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[Ann Johnson]

Sorry all. Thanks for bringing up this subject. I didn't realize it was an issue until I heard from David that the gadget was no longer functional. I contacted the developer, who has shut down his website but graciously made his code available, so for CFO, Colorado County Birding, and DFO (as well as South Dakota, Iowa and Missouri) Bird Trax is now running from the Iowa Birds website. Hopefully there will be a more permanent solution soon but at least for the near term things are as they should be.
Ann Johnson