RE: [cobirds] Thoughts on rare bird communications - a conversation starter and a suggestion

2018-12-07 Thread William H Kaempfer
Diana and other Cobirders, Another very easy, but again not perfect, option, is to use BirdTrax on the CFO website https://cobirds.org/ Go to the site, select the Birding Resources tab at the top of the page and then Reporting Birds on the drop down menu. At the right hand side of the

Re: [cobirds] Thoughts on rare bird communications - a conversation starter and a suggestion

2018-12-07 Thread Diana Beatty
Hi all, Someone had asked me about something I said on this topic in the other thread - about being able to get notices from eBird almost right away about rare birds - so I thought maybe some others may also be unaware and benefit from the information. When you're logged in to your eBird

Re: [cobirds] Thoughts on rare bird communications - a conversation starter and a suggestion

2018-12-06 Thread Carl Bendorf
Hi Ross, Couple of thoughts. First, regarding passwords, I would think you would at least want to be signed into your Facebook account to be able to view (and comment) on this new Colorado Rare Bird Alert page. But you should be able to sign in to Facebook just once and be able to remain

RE: [cobirds] Thoughts on rare bird communications - a conversation starter and a suggestion

2018-12-06 Thread Ross Silcock
Thanks Carl for the summary. I have questions about FB (I’m on it, but rarely look at it), but my main question is how can I know which groups there are, ie, is there a way to get a list of bird-related groups to see which ones I am interested in, as well as which new ones are being constantly

Re: [cobirds] Thoughts on rare bird communications - a conversation starter and a suggestion

2018-12-06 Thread Christian Hagenlocher
Hello Colorado Birders, It seems like from the discussion today that a Colorado Rare Bird Alert Facebook group would be useful for both resident and visiting birders in Colorado. I took the liberty to create this group, but it is up to the birding community to use this as a tool to report rare

Re: [cobirds] Thoughts on rare bird communications - a conversation starter and a suggestion

2018-12-06 Thread Diana Beatty
If there is interest in a Facebook group for Colorado Rare Birds i would be happy to create one. I think many people are kind of doing it already in a variety of existing Facebook groups like CFO, DFO, etc. But if people in general see a need/value in having a specific page for that purpose it