[cobirds] Re: Cobirds and Ebirds reports

2013-01-31 Thread The Nunn Guy
Anyway to connect the two? Good database practice says enter data once--also facilitates a better customer experience (not having customer to enter data in multiple instances). I would think the good folks at eBird can flag rare birds and send data to this list? And you would think Google had

Re: [cobirds] Re: Cobirds and Ebirds reports

2013-01-31 Thread Paul Hurtado
I would also like encourage posting rarities to CoBirds even if they are submitted to eBird, however in practice I know this sometimes just doesn't happen, or doesn't happen as quickly as some might like. I myself have been guilty of this! So what's the solution? I would encourage statewide RBA

Re: [cobirds] Re: Cobirds and Ebirds reports

2013-01-31 Thread Peter Burke
Gary COBirds, In my old stomping grounds of New Jersey, Sam Galick, who is an eBird regional editor, created a New Jersey map of rare sightings that I believe is linked directly to the eBird database. Here is a link to the site:

Re: [cobirds] Re: Cobirds and Ebirds reports

2013-01-31 Thread Jeff Witters
No hard numbers to back this up, but in the almost six years since moving to KS I've seen the use of our the state listserv drop steadily as eBird and social media platforms (FB) have steadily increased membership/use. The big driver is increased smartphone use (

Re: [cobirds] Re: Cobirds and Ebirds reports

2013-01-31 Thread Bryan Guarente
I used to have a working map of the Colorado Notables.  For some reason it has stopped working and I worked on the code tonight to try to fix it, but to no avail.  I have contacted the support crew for the eBird backend to see what I can find out about what I am doing wrong. For your