I agree!! - Susan Anderson > On Oct 2, 2018, at 3:08 PM, Kim R Eckert <ecker...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Alyssa, > > By all means, your news of rarities forwarded to mou-net from eBird are > appreciated, so please keep them coming. There are several active Minnesota > birders who report to the MOU database and keep track of sightings there, and > they may not know when something of note appears on eBird. And the same > applies to group or personal Facebook pages, texting groups, or other forums. > There are dozens of these (or 100s, if you include every birder with a > Facebook page), all with the potential of significant birding news that most > birders might never hear about. It’s simply not possible to become a Facebook > friend with every birder out there who might have news of a rarity. It sure > would be nice if it were possible to have one central site where notable > species are reported – whether it’s eBird, a Facebook page, texting group, > this listserv, or whatever forum we could all agree on. It used to be hard > enough just to find the rarity that is reported. Now it’s often harder just > to find the report of it in the first place. > > Kim Eckert, Duluth > > > > > > On Oct 2, 2018, at 9:48 AM, Alyssa DeRubeis <alderub...@gmail.com > <mailto:alderub...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > There’s a Least Tern being seen in the Superior Bay between Minnesota and > Wisconsin as of yesterday. Read the report below. As an aside, I’m curious to > know if these emails to MOU-net regarding rare eBird reports have any value. > It’s my understanding that a lot of folks are already subscribed to receive > such notifications from eBird, since no one else really seems to re-post them > to this group. I am happy to keep passing them along or I can stop. I assume > some folks do not or refuse to subscribe to eBird, but I’m wondering how > many. If it’s a small minority, then these emails would mostly be repeats of > what most birders already know. I would like to hear your opinion, so please > reply PRIVATELY (as in do NOT have mou-net in your recipient field). Thanks > for your polite and civil responses. > > Least Tern (Sternula antillarum) (1) > - Reported Oct 01, 2018 15:00 by Clinton Nienhaus > - Superior Harbor (between Pump House and Chanel Markers), St. Louis, > Minnesota > - Map: > http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=46.7129582,-92.0364198&ll=46.7129582,-92.0364198 > - Checklist: https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S48877234 > <https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S48877234> > <https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S48877234 > <https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S48877234>> > > > Alyssa DeRubeis > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > <http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net> > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > <http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html> > > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > <http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net> > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > <http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html>
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