How to make a bird list for any one day

[pat.mckay]

Hello All,

I would like to be able to create an ebird list for all the birds that I have seen on any one particular day, and so far I can't figure out how to make daily lists.
It is easy to make a weekly list, or a monthly list, but as far as I can see ebird makes no provision for getting at the total number of species you have seen on any one day if you birded in more than one location, unless you do it yourself and look at all your observations, carefully eliminating duplicate records.
I personally like to know how many species altogether I have seen on one day, and find it strange that I can't seem to find out how to do this. (OK, it is possible to do it for the current day if you set up to create a weekly list which starts on today's date, as there will then be only the one day's worth of data for ebird to sort through, but this only works for the current day, not for any other day in the past unless you did not happen to bird on the following 6 days after the day you want.)

Perhaps I am alone in wanting to be able to create a day's list for any day.
Perhaps there is a way to do it on ebird, and I just haven't discovered it.
Any tips would be much appreciated!

Cheers,
Pat

[David Bell]

Hey Pat,

That is currently the only 'easy' way to get a day list from eBird. It's a little annoying but it's part of eBird's goal - to move users away from 'day lists' and the long travelling counts, and into more accurate, shorter lists (for science!).

It does actually work for any day; with the weekly reports it gives you a day list for every day of the week (click 'species totals' at the top to see how many of each). It also includes any additional taxa though, such as sp's, slashes, hybrids, etc., so you would have to subtract those. Just make sure you are selecting all of the locations it offers, to include all of your entries.

If you have an iPhone and use the eBird Mobile app, it has a 'trip list' feature, which may be coming to Android users at some point as well. This can also be used to create day lists, but only for checklists you've submitted from the app. An additional (but much more intensive, and MUCH slower) way to get your day list would be to download all of your data from eBird (click 'download my data' on your page), then sort by date, remove all the dates except the one you want, and then remove duplicates from within the species column. I obviously wouldn't recommend this but it would work.

David

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[John Loch]

Further to David's email today, one can use "my ebird" in eBird to "Download my Data" which will come to you in an email within 24 hrs from eBird.

I believe that download will be in an Excel *.csv format. 

From there you can create reports on your daily sightings, weekly, etc. using Excel.

I believe that  download will be a complete data set of all of your eBird sightings.

This isn't "simple", of course, if you are unfamiliar with Excel.

 

John Loch

On June 26, 2017 at 8:06 AM David Bell <parz...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Pat,

That is currently the only 'easy' way to get a day list from eBird. It's a little annoying but it's part of eBird's goal - to move users away from 'day lists' and the long travelling counts, and into more accurate, shorter lists (for science!).

It does actually work for any day; with the weekly reports it gives you a day list for every day of the week (click 'species totals' at the top to see how many of each). It also includes any additional taxa though, such as sp's, slashes, hybrids, etc., so you would have to subtract those. Just make sure you are selecting all of the locations it offers, to include all of your entries.

If you have an iPhone and use the eBird Mobile app, it has a 'trip list' feature, which may be coming to Android users at some point as well. This can also be used to create day lists, but only for checklists you've submitted from the app. An additional (but much more intensive, and MUCH slower) way to get your day list would be to download all of your data from eBird (click 'download my data' on your page), then sort by date, remove all the dates except the one you want, and then remove duplicates from within the species column. I obviously wouldn't recommend this but it would work.

David

On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 2:02 PM, pat.mckay <pat....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello All,

I would like to be able to create an ebird list for all the birds that I have seen on any one particular day, and so far I can't figure out how to make daily lists.
It is easy to make a weekly list, or a monthly list, but as far as I can see ebird makes no provision for getting at the total number of species you have seen on any one day if you birded in more than one location, unless you do it yourself and look at all your observations, carefully eliminating duplicate records.
I personally like to know how many species altogether I have seen on one day, and find it strange that I can't seem to find out how to do this. (OK, it is possible to do it for the current day if you set up to create a weekly list which starts on today's date, as there will then be only the one day's worth of data for ebird to sort through, but this only works for the current day, not for any other day in the past unless you did not happen to bird on the following 6 days after the day you want.)

Perhaps I am alone in wanting to be able to create a day's list for any day.
Perhaps there is a way to do it on ebird, and I just haven't discovered it.
Any tips would be much appreciated!

Cheers,
Pat

 

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[pat.mckay]

Hello David,

Thank you for the reply. I find it a little odd that ebird considers this a way to move users away from day lists and long travelling counts. I myself use the long travelling counts as a day list precisely so that I can have a nice neat list of all the birds I've seen on one day. I do understand and realise that more precise short lists would be better for science than my long rambling day lists, but I really like having a nice neat day list so I find ebird's strategy counterproductive in achieving their goal to have me submit many more short site specific lists! However, I do see that the weekly list does give me a day list for every day in that week, which is something I had somehow not noticed before, so I do appreciate that information.
Thanks again,
Pat