There are a number of things that the eBird UI (user interface) doesn't allow as I feel it is more of a data collector and provider of page views at the region level and for individual hotspots rather than a place to interact with the data using the UI for more detailed and varied views.
To perform functions like this I download data or copy / paste & reformat pages in Excel. A typical issue is to parse out the Common and Scientific names which are typically both held in one cell and with differing formats e.g. sometimes with parentheses surrounding scientific names or sometimes with nothing at all surrounding them. This is for N.Y. County (Manhattan, surrounding islands and Marble Hill). For 181 checklists the *total # of species reported was 130*. *OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER* is an early eBird record with no previous reports submitted for the month of April. Here are the top 15 "rarities" *based on the average bar chart frequency* for the last week of April through the first week of May for New York County: - Blue-winged Teal - Killdeer - Greater Yellowlegs - Red-throated Loon - Common Loon - Sharp-shinned Hawk - Cooper's Hawk - Broad-winged Hawk - Great Horned Owl - Merlin - Olive-sided Flycatcher - Common Raven - Golden-crowned Kinglet - Evening Grosbeak - Pine Siskin Here are all 130 species in taxonomic order based on 181 checklists: *Family Anatidae — Geese, Swans, and Ducks * - Brant - Canada Goose - Wood Duck - Blue-winged Teal - Northern Shoveler - Gadwall - Mallard - American Black Duck - Bufflehead - Ruddy Duck *Family Columbidae — Pigeons and Doves * - Rock Pigeon - Mourning Dove *Family Cuculidae — Cuckoos* - Black-billed Cuckoo *Family Apodidae — Swifts * - Chimney Swift *Family Trochilidae — Hummingbirds * - Ruby-throated Hummingbird *Family Charadriidae — Lapwings and Plovers * - Killdeer *Family Scolopacidae — Sandpipers* - Spotted Sandpiper - Greater Yellowlegs *Family Laridae — Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers* - Laughing Gull - Ring-billed Gull - Herring Gull - Great Black-backed Gull *Family Gaviidae — Loons * - Red-throated Loon - Common Loon *Family Phalacrocoracidae — Cormorants * - Double-crested Cormorant *Family Ardeidae — Bitterns, Herons, and Allies * - Great Blue Heron - Great Egret - Snowy Egret - Green Heron - Black-crowned Night-Heron *Family Pandionidae — Osprey* - Osprey *Family Accipitridae — Kites, Eagles, Hawks, and Allies * - Sharp-shinned Hawk - Cooper's Hawk - Broad-winged Hawk - Red-tailed Hawk *Family Strigidae — True Owls * - Great Horned Owl - Barred Owl *Family Alcedinidae — Kingfishers * - Belted Kingfisher *Family Picidae — Woodpeckers and Allies * - Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Red-bellied Woodpecker - Downy Woodpecker - Hairy Woodpecker - Northern Flicker *Family Falconidae — Falcons * - American Kestrel - Merlin - Peregrine Falcon *Family Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers * - Olive-sided Flycatcher - Eastern Phoebe - Great Crested Flycatcher - Eastern Kingbird *Family Vireonidae — Vireos* - White-eyed Vireo - Yellow-throated Vireo - Blue-headed Vireo - Warbling Vireo - Red-eyed Vireo *Family Corvidae — Jays, Magpies, and Crows* - Blue Jay - American Crow - Fish Crow - Common Raven *Family Paridae — Chickadees and Titmice * - Black-capped Chickadee - Tufted Titmouse *Family Hirundinidae — Martins and Swallows * - Northern Rough-winged Swallow - Tree Swallow - Barn Swallow *Family Regulidae — Kinglets * - Golden-crowned Kinglet - Ruby-crowned Kinglet *Family Sittidae — Nuthatches * - Red-breasted Nuthatch - White-breasted Nuthatch *Family Polioptilidae — Gnatcatchers* - Blue-gray Gnatcatcher *Family Troglodytidae — Wrens * - House Wren - Winter Wren - Carolina Wren *Family Sturnidae — Starlings* - European Starling *Family Mimidae — Mockingbirds, Thrashers, and Allies * - Gray Catbird - Brown Thrasher - Northern Mockingbird *Family Turdidae — Thrushes * - Veery - Swainson's Thrush - Hermit Thrush - Wood Thrush - American Robin *Family Passeridae — Old World Sparrows * - House Sparrow *Family Fringillidae — Finches and Crossbills* - Evening Grosbeak - House Finch - Purple Finch - Pine Siskin - American Goldfinch *Family Passerellidae — New World Sparrows and Allies* 1. Chipping Sparrow 2. Field Sparrow 3. Dark-eyed Junco 4. White-crowned Sparrow 5. White-throated Sparrow 6. Savannah Sparrow 7. Song Sparrow 8. Lincoln's Sparrow 9. Swamp Sparrow 10. Eastern Towhee *Family Icteridae — Blackbirds, Meadowlarks, and Orioles* - Orchard Oriole - Baltimore Oriole - Red-winged Blackbird - Brown-headed Cowbird - Common Grackle *Family Parulidae — Wood-Warblers * 1. Ovenbird 2. Worm-eating Warbler 3. Louisiana Waterthrush 4. Northern Waterthrush 5. Blue-winged Warbler 6. Black-and-white Warbler 7. Nashville Warbler 8. Common Yellowthroat 9. Hooded Warbler 10. American Redstart 11. Cape May Warbler 12. Northern Parula 13. Magnolia Warbler 14. Blackburnian Warbler 15. Yellow Warbler 16. Chestnut-sided Warbler 17. Blackpoll Warbler 18. Black-throated Blue Warbler 19. Palm Warbler 20. Pine Warbler 21. Yellow-rumped Warbler 22. Yellow-throated Warbler 23. Prairie Warbler 24. Black-throated Green Warbler *Family Cardinalidae — Tanagers, Cardinals and Allies* - Scarlet Tanager - Northern Cardinal - Rose-breasted Grosbeak - Indigo Bunting -- Ben Cacace Manhattan, NYC -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
