Joe, Joyce, all volunteers who have done the RBA, a hearty thankyou is the least that you deserve. Much appreciated and avidly read over the years by hundreds, nay thousands of birders, in state, and from far beyond.
E-bird offers a replacement of sorts, and I won't go into the benefits, nor the downsides of it at this time, other than to say I that I find it exceedingly time consuming wading through piles of e-bird rare bird alert emails in the hope of finding a timely update on an interesting bird to maybe chase, or wondering what may have been seen in general. Meanwhile, I sincerely hope that birders will continue to post their most interesting observations to this Cobirds group for a long time to come. I am sure they are very popular and well received by many. For those interested in western colorado birds, please be aware that 'wsbn' is an active Google Group for sharing bird sightings and observations for the 'Western Slope' Thanks again to all for the statewide RBA. I for one will miss it. Good birding DickFilby Carbondale, CO Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S® 6, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: Joe Roller <jroll...@gmail.com> Date: 5/26/20 09:26 (GMT-07:00) To: Colorado Birds <cobirds@googlegroups.com> Subject: [cobirds] Rest in Peace, COLORADO RARE BIRD ALERT! Daily updates on rare and interesting birds in Colorado have been shared via Cobirds for over 14 years as the "Colorado Rare Bird Alert" (or Report). For 13 years, Joyce Takamine tirelessly compiled this list of rarities from all over the state, posting it with dates and places on the Cobirds listserv and into your email inboxes. After Joyce retired at the end of 2018, a few of us continued to compile the report. But our team of volunteers is no longer large enough to continue this informational service, which has been sponsored for years by the Denver Field Ornithologists. In the past we invited volunteers to join the RBA team of compilers, but we are no longer seeking those, as the RBA is over now. By way of history, the RBA continued the early notification work of dedicated birders like Dave Martin, Norm Erthal and Dick Schottler, who phoned in daily field updates to a DFO voice recorder. Local and visiting birders could dial in to hear these daily messages and keep abreast of the changing parade of rarities moving through Colorado. Even before that, DFO sponsored a "telephone tree" notification list in the 1960s and '70s. Each birder in the tree would get a a call from an excited birder up the list: "Hey! Bruce Webb found a Little Gull at Union Reservoir today. First state record! Call the next two birders on the list to let them know!" Before that? Perhaps birders used two tin cans and a string -- I don't know. In any event, the joy of sharing goes back a long time and will continue beyond the RBA. As many of you already know, eBird provides free updates of Colorado rare bird sightings as frequently as hourly. (Sign up at www.ebird.org/alerts<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebird.org%2Falerts&data=02%7C01%7C%7C493a90a4373349d2ded708d8018917cc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637261035598008442&sdata=b%2Bk%2FbLObEqBQ7M7QVKYvLsmszyLq2ZyLpxBCNBDxG6k%3D&reserved=0>) The CFO website has a section where bird reports appear the moment a checklist is sent to eBird. (cfobirds.org<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcfobirds.org%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C493a90a4373349d2ded708d8018917cc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637261035598008442&sdata=1GkFsLr5233IiDok9WUoxBzM4FdLbwOm9e2xcf1Ka6k%3D&reserved=0>) On behalf of the current team of RBA compilers, thank you for allowing us to share the joy of discovery through the decades . . . and good birding! Joe Roller, Denver [https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CAJpZcUB_zBCS3mmZrKb8G9%2B%2BETDA2p2LG2dUN2XA0JbyMAWcmA%40mail.gmail.com<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fd%2Fmsgid%2Fcobirds%2FCAJpZcUB_zBCS3mmZrKb8G9%252B%252BETDA2p2LG2dUN2XA0JbyMAWcmA%2540mail.gmail.com%3Futm_medium%3Demail%26utm_source%3Dfooter&data=02%7C01%7C%7C493a90a4373349d2ded708d8018917cc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637261035598008442&sdata=f0uDQ6k4o%2BWFhHJ5JPwz7mEPr8tWB2REmYgjuEmH%2FFA%3D&reserved=0>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/VI1PR10MB159893BA94B4D5507AA82FA1B2B00%40VI1PR10MB1598.EURPRD10.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM.
