[nysbirds-l] Blue grosbeak

[Michael Higgiston]

Sighted this morning at 8:30 in field next to ranger station at canoe/kayak 
parking lot at Southaven park in Yaphank
Mike Higgiston 
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[nysbirds-l] Thick-billed Murre on Great Gull Island

[Joseph DiCostanzo]

Heard a little while ago from Helen Hays that this morning (April 25) Matthew 
Male picked up a dead Thick-billed Murre on Great Gull Island, Suffolk County. 
The bird is in winter plumage and does not appear to be long dead.

Joe DiCostanzo

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[nysbirds-l] City Nature Challenge - iNaturalist Competition – NYC vs 60 other cities April 27-30

[Nancy Tognan]

City Nature Challenge - iNaturalist Competition – NYC vs 60 other cities April 
27-30
The City University of NY (CUNY) Macaulay Honors College is organizing the NYC 
arm of the City Nature Challenge. Over 60 cities throughout the world are 
competing. See http://citynaturechallenge.org  
 and 
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2018-new-york-city 
.
 
Challenge: Have as many people as possible make iNaturalist posts of wildlife 
sightings in New York City between April 27-30, 2018. There are four ways that 
NYC can “win” this competition: most total observations, most verifiable 
observations, most species, and most people involved. 
Please note that I am not an organizer of this competition nor am I affiliated 
with CUNY. I am attempting to assist the effort by asking birders to each 
report a few sightings in order to boost our city's results.
If you have never used iNaturalist but you are thinking about it, now might be 
a good time to try it. Even if you don’t want to use it all the time, you might 
find it helpful once in a while for recording the exact location of something 
you might want to re-locate. If you have a smartphone, you can download the app 
“iNaturalist”; if not, use the website www.inaturalist.org 
 
To use iNaturalist, you need both an exact time and location of whatever 
wildlife you have found - a plant, animal, fungus, slime mold, or other 
evidence (scat, fur, tracks, shells, carcasses). If you can take a picture or 
audio recording, you should do so, because without it, the observation cannot 
be verified to become “research grade”.  Unverifiable observations will count 
for 3 of the competition categories, so it is still useful to make them.
If you use the app, it will automatically record the date/time, your 
latitude/longitude, along with whatever photo you take with your cell phone. 
Suggestion: If you take a long zoom picture with a non-cell-phone camera, take 
a cell phone picture of the displayed photo in the back of your camera.
If you use the website:
You may enter a sighting with a photo from any camera without using the app. 
You would need to enter a time and location manually.
Or if you used the app and posted no photo or a bad photo, you can update your 
sighting with a better photo.
However you make the entry, you need to make some guess as to the species, 
family, or other grouping of the organism (“monarch butterfly”, “insect”, etc.)
You can read more about this at 
https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/getting+started 
 

Nancy Tognan
VP, Queens County Bird Club
nancy.tog...@gmail.com  
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[nysbirds-l] David La Puma Ph.D - BirdCallsRadio

[Mardi Dickinson]

Birders et al,

Thought many of you would be interested in my next guest David La Puma, 
Director of NJA/CMBO http://birdcallsradio.com/

Cheers,
Mardi Dickinson
Connecticut
https://kymrygroup.com/


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[nysbirds-l] NYS eBird Hotspots: Recent Visits

[Ben Cacace]

Clicking on the 'Recent Vistits' links on the New York State page, county
pages and individual hotspots will display a recent list of checklists.
Personal locations will show up *only* on the New York State page and the
County pages along with checklists from hotspots.

The 'Recent Visits' links have now been highlighted purple. While checking
out the pages I noticed that all multiple hotspot pages (i.e. 'City Island
(Bronx Co.)' [Image #3]) were missing 'Recent Visit' links which have now
been added. The following pages were updated:

• New York State (1 page)
• County (62 pages) [Image #1]
• Single hotspots (645 pages) [Image #2]
• Multiple hotspots (268 pages / 1,233 hotspots) [Image #3]

New York State page:
http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/Birding+in+New+York

To access the 'Recent Visits' link directly from eBird.org:

For regions like New York State and each of the counties:
• Click 'Explore' near the top of the eBird.org home page
• Click 'Explore a Region'
• Type in the county, state, province or country
• Click 'Recent Visits' in the menu above the # of species

For each hotspot:
• Click 'Explore' near the top of the eBird.org home page
• Click 'Explore Hotspots'
• Search for Hotspot on map or type Hotspot name in search box
• Click on 'View Details'
• Click 'Recent Visits' in the menu above the # of species

Link to images on NYS eBird Hotspots:
http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/Images_RecentVisits
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Ben Cacace
Manhattan, NYC
Wiki for NYS eBird Hotspots

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