Do you look at the Colorado Rare Bird Alert (RBA) from time to time? If you find it useful, please consider helping to keep it going. Last December, stalwart compiler Joyce Takamine completed an amazing 13 years assembling the daily Colorado RBA. Eager to continue this service to Colorado birders and visitors, a team of volunteers has continued to post daily updates for the past year. Thanks to Allison Hilf, Gregg Goodrich, John Drummond, David Leatherman and Patrick O’Driscoll for this service. We are now recruiting more compilers to share the load and keep this birding aid going strong.
There are three target audiences for the Colorado RBA: 1) Active Colorado birders who want to know where rare birds can be found. 2) Visiting birders from out of state who want some help finding rarities. 3) “Armchair birders” who enjoy knowing what’s around but cannot go afield as much as they used to. Birders in each group have given us positive feedback about the value of the Colorado RBA, but volunteer help is needed to keep it going. Opportunity knocks! Will you sign up to become an RBA compiler, too? We are looking for birders with enough experience in Colorado to know a rarity from merely uncommon or expected species. Two guides help us with this: the eBird Colorado Rare Bird Alert and the Colorado Bird Records Committee’s official checklist of the 511 bird species recorded in the state. The initial time commitment is quite reasonable and provides you with a chance to see if you enjoy the work as much as the rest of us do. We provide a complete "how-to" guide to get you started, and an experienced compiler will be right at your side until you get up to speed. Typically, new compilers need only a day or two to get the hang of it. After a one-week trial period, you can sign up for as little as one week each quarter. The time involved varies from less than an hour a day during slow periods to up to two hours during peak migration. Novice compilers are assigned slower weeks to start. If you use the RBA, please help with the RBA! For more information or to volunteer, contact me. Joe Roller, Denver jroll...@gmail.com (303) 204-0828. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CAJpZcUCpQ3jN81cABD-NZXHtk923gBhKjamB4xhLq0JNp9wWvw%40mail.gmail.com.
