The wiki pages for NYS eBird hotspots are updated for the month of Feb/2015. These pages provide supplemental information and easy/direct access to many eBird.org pages. Hopefully they will provide the details needed for each of the hotspots covered.
The pages on the wiki covers each of the 62 counties. There are currently 15 counties that have details for individual hotspots for a total of 207 pages covering a 741 hotspots. This is roughly 20% of the 3,800+ hotspots for all of New York State. The counties with pages for hotspots are highlighted in gold and green in the alphabetical listing at the bottom of the home page. Updating the pages includes correcting the species number for the tables on the county pages and for New York State. The color coding which highlights each county and hotspot location is based on the species total. These colors are based on the colors used on the eBird.org maps and range from gray to blue to green to yellow to orange to red from lowest # of species to highest. A discussion section has been added to each page. If you'd like to add comments, critiques, suggestions for links or descriptions for the county or location pages you can sign up for a wikispaces account. To join you'll need to provide a username, password, email account and you can answer no to the "Make a wiki?" query. A new species has been added to the New York State totals (currently 464 spp.) but since the new state species is not a recent find it is not so easy to determine which is the addition. Here's the main page. You can get to each of the counties through the clickable map or the alphabetical list of counties with the NYC area grouped at the end of the list. http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/Birding+in+New+York You can view a test discussion I setup on the following page: http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/nycountysingles Enjoy! -- Ben Cacace Manhattan, NYC Wiki for NYS eBird Hotspots <http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/Birding+in+New+York> Facebook Discussion for NYS eBird Hotspots <https://www.facebook.com/groups/NYeBirdHotspots/> -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
