App to check safe dates for Maine Bird Atlas

[Christine Murray]

For those of you collecting data for the Maine Bird Atlas, I've made an app where you can check whether today's date falls within the safe dates for a given species. 

So, if you see or hear a bird and want to know in the field whether it is all right to submit as Possible (H) or Possible(S), just go to https://christinemurr.shinyapps.io/CheckDates/ on your phone, type in the species name, and it will tell you whether it is "safe" to submit a breeding code.

Here's a shortened URL for the same thing: https://bit.ly/2W7JPa0

Feedback welcome. You can also check out a more elaborate app to look at eBird hotspots overlaid with the bird atlas blocks at https://bates.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=605433980a2d43beb5b8e86bc0c018e9 ( or https://bit.ly/2M6T2ul)

-Christine