Re: [cobirds] Re: History - Old bird checklists

2021-10-06 Thread Paula Hansley
My Apple computer was hacked last year. I lost everything on it and also my online backup with Carbonite. The hackers were interested in obtaining my mineral data. (I’m a consulting geologist) I hired one of the best computer experts in the Denver metro area at $300/ hour to try to retrieve

RE: [cobirds] Re: History - Old bird checklists

2021-09-06 Thread Dave Hyde
Colorado Birds<mailto:cobirds@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: [cobirds] Re: History - Old bird checklists This is a nice tribute to Hugh Kingery. Thanks to Hugh and his wife. I hope you find a place to store your records. Maureen Blackford Boulder County, C Original messa

[cobirds] Re: History - Old bird checklists

2021-09-06 Thread Mary Kay Waddington
Many of you may remember Frank Justice, a long-time birder in the state. He kept meticulous records over the years, including numbers, time, date, exact locations and distances traveled, and weather conditions. And he kept them in large ledgers -- dozens of them! His wife Jan, (also a long-time

Re: [cobirds] Re: History - Old bird checklists

2021-09-06 Thread mblackford
, Colorado Birds Subject: Re: [cobirds] Re: History - Old bird checklists I wholeheartedly agree with Chuck.Pre-eBird paper lists are important artifacts of our birding history, especially as so much of our recordkeeping has shifted to digital.And Jeff, your remarks are a great reminder for all

Re: [cobirds] Re: History - Old bird checklists

2021-09-06 Thread Scott Somershoe
I completely agree with Patrick. I’d add a story about a long time Tennessee birder and big time world birder who moved to Florida about 7 years ago. Before Terry Witt moved, he threw nearly 50 years of birds records in the trash. Nothing is in EBird or Avisis or archived in any way. He told me

Re: [cobirds] Re: History - Old bird checklists

2021-09-06 Thread Adrian Lakin
Hugh, If you don't want to enter them into eBird, then I'm willing to take them from you and enter them into eBird as a historical record. I think it will be a fascinating project to go through them and add them to the eBird database like Patrick said. I would create a new eBird account with

Re: [cobirds] Re: History - Old bird checklists

2021-09-06 Thread Patrick O'Driscoll
I wholeheartedly agree with Chuck. Pre-eBird paper lists are important artifacts of our birding history, especially as so much of our recordkeeping has shifted to digital. And Jeff, your remarks are a great reminder for all of us to archive our earlier lists on eBird. Those of us eBirders who

Re: [cobirds] Re: History - Old bird checklists

2021-09-06 Thread Charles Hundertmark
Veteran field ornithologists like Hugh should check into archiving their old checklists at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. It’s an excellent archive housing the records of several of the prominent field ornithologists from Colorado’s past. Chuck Hundertmark Lafayette, CO > On Sep 6,

[cobirds] Re: History - Old bird checklists

2021-09-06 Thread Jeff Percell
You should add the checklists onto eBird, so that everyone can benefit from the data. https://support.ebird.org/en/support/solutions/articles/48001158707-get-started-with-ebird Thanks, Jeff Percell Erie, CO On Sunday, September 5, 2021 at 4:58:36 PM UTC-6 ouz...@aol.com wrote: > Does anyone