In a web browser on any checklist under checklist tools you can select to
download the list as a .csv file which can be opened in any spreadsheet program
such as Excel or Google sheets (which is free with a Google account). Depending
on how many lists, it can take a couple of minutes to cut and paste them all
together into a single spreadsheet. You can then sort the species column,
combine the duplicate species totals and delete the duplicates. In Excel if you
highlight the species column, select Conditional Formatting and Duplicate
Values it will highlight where all the duplicates are.It sounds complicated,
but it is actually pretty quick -
On Monday, October 12, 2020, 01:13:00 PM EDT, Brent Bomkamp
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all,
Another option, though somewhat cumbersome, is to look at your day list for the
date of the CBC. To do this, click on the "Sightings Lists" link underneath
the "Explore My..." list on the left side of the main My eBird page. Here's a
link to the lists page:
https://ebird.org/MyEBird?cmd=lifeList&time=life&listType=world
On the top bar, click on the calendar icon and select the date you desire.
While the number of individuals seen of each species is not visible here, you
can view it by clicking on the "View All" button to the right of each species
within this list and noting the total at the top of the page.
Not as convenient as the Summarize My Observations option, but still workable.
Best,
Brent
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 1:04 PM Brendan Fogarty <[email protected]> wrote:
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
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