Is there an RSS feed of (all) Colorado eBird reports? Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn http://coloradobirder.ning.com/
On Tuesday, July 10, 2012 8:43:48 AM UTC-6, ted wrote: > > > Hello, Birders. > > Brandon Percival brings up an interesting point: > > > When people submit sightings to e-bird from public birding > > locations, it would be good to also post the sighting to cobirds, > > or call the Colorado RBA. Too many rare birds are reported > > to e-bird, that don't seem to make it to cobirds or the Colorado RBA. > > > It's not just eBird. In this balkanized eWorld of ours, bird data are all > over the place. I know many of you are members of CFO's Facebook group > page, with discussion of, among other things, bird sightings that aren't > being posted to COBirds. There are regional and continental online > databases, such as The Natural Heritage Program's, with lots of bird > sightings that are reported to neither COBirds nor eBird. There are also > many local databases with great bird data; I can think of two for Boulder > County alone. Some of these databases are getting into eBird (cf. DFO), but > others aren't there yet (cf. Yampa Valley Birding Club). There's the West > Slope Birding Network, of course. There's a nifty gadget on the CFO > homepage that reports all eBird rarities, flagged as "validated" and "not > [yet] validated". Etc., etc. And, ultimately, there's just good-ole-fashion > word of mouth: Yesterday, I heard from a birder who's just not "plugged in" > about a local rarity. > > In other words, COBirds is one of, honestly, a dozen sources of bird info > for me. > > What to do? > > I basically agree with Brandon: Post the data to your outlet of choice > (Facebook, WSBN, eBird, wherever), AND ALSO let us know here on COBirds. > For now, anyhow, COBirds seems to me to be the default archives for rare > bird info in Colorado. Maybe, some day, when we all have AKN (the Avian > Knowledge Network) electo-implanted into our brains, there won't be a need > for COBirds. But cyber-birders of the sort I have in mind won't be reality > until at least 2016... So, for now, I agree: cross-post all of it to > COBirds. > > Ted Floyd > [email protected] > Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/cobirds/-/aKjif-kRwD8J. 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-US.
