Hey Nancy, The summarize feature is not gone permanently - eBird is transitioning all of its ancient pages to a new format and it is supposed to return within the year, but it could indeed pose a challenge for the CBCs if it isn’t fast-tracked.
I am not sure what the most elegant solution for CBC listing is today. In eBird mobile (definitely for iOS, Android I can’t say for sure) one can choose “Trip Summaries” under “Checklists” and see all species counts for any given particular date range, including just one day. Minimizing the number of list keepers in a sector party would help here. The “Trip” report can be emailed out. Another option is to create a sector eBird account. Anyone keeping lists within the party can share their lists with that account. You can see a species list in the account’s “My eBird” but not species totals. For that you’d need to export its observations into Excel. Everything is likely getting summed in Excel by the coordinators anyway. I hope any other useful strategies will be shared here before CBC season hits. The species highs/first/last all can still be accessed on the pages for a location (country, state, county, or hotspot level). Check the buttons just above the species list, under “Sightings”. Best, Brendan On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 12:31 PM Nancy Tognan <[email protected]> wrote: > I contacted eBird via their website on August 23, 2020 re the following > complaint. There has been no response. > > EBird used to have the function “Summarize My Observations”, which has now > been eliminated. It was useful to produce a combined trip list of multiple > locations. It was especially useful for the Christmas Bird Count. > > My North Nassau CBC sector includes 19 locations (each a separate spot to > drive to). In years past, I could produce a combined checklist in about 2 > minutes using “Summarize My Observations”. Now what? Print 19 checklists > and combine the data by hand? This may take two hours instead of two > minutes. > > I would like to have seen “Summarize My Observations” be improved to allow > more flexible dates and selection of locations. Instead, the whole feature > is gone - did eBird ask anyone before deleteing it? I feel that birders > spend a lot of effort inputting their data - shouldn’t eBird give us a > better interface to inquire on it? > > Does the loss of this feature bother anyone else or just me? > > By the way, these other features were also deleted: species All-Time > First/Last Records, Arrivals and Departures, and High Counts. > > Nancy Tognan > > > > > > > -- > > NYSbirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html > 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L > 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- > > -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
