Hello, Birders. Prompted by all the recent Red-eyed Vireo reports to COBirds, I decided to check something out on eBird. To make a long story short, here's the result: http://tinyurl.com/2vp7o9q
This is so cool. It shows how a few Red-eyed Vireos showed up at the classic migrant traps in southeastern Colorado in May 2010 (red stickpins); and then the species staged its ongoing mini-invasion of the northern Front Range foothills starting in early June (yellow stickpins). So often, we come up with ideas about the timing, extent, and intensity of migration, irruptions, range expansions, and so forth; and so often, we don't really have the data to back it up. But eBird is profoundly changing all of that. In the past, all I coulda done was wondered if there was anything to my hunch that it was a kinda lackluster spring for Red-eyed Vireos, followed by a strong early-summer push of the species into the northern foothills. I coulda even speculated about it in print (say, in North American Birds or Colorado Birds). But now I can say it really happened, I can be precise and quantitative about it, and I can generate amazing range maps with just a few clicks of the mouse. eBird is revolutionizing birding. If you don't do eBird yet, you owe it to yourself to see what it's all about. ------------------------------- Ted Floyd Editor, Birding Follow Birding magazine on Twitter: http://twitter.com/BirdingMagazine ------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
