Offshore winds and intermittent rain showers produced a nice little fallout of passerines this morning at Park Point Recreation Area, Duluth. Among the 16 species of warblers were no fewer than 7 Golden-winged Warblers and a record-high fall count of 78 Nashville Warblers. Please see the eBird report at the end of this message for a complete list of warblers seen.
Speaking of eBird -- rarity lovers now have a new tool at their disposal -- the eBird Rare Bird GOOGLE GADGET. This is a small device that can be added to an iGoogle homepage, or any webpage, and displays the week?s rarest birds in whatever state you select. The gadget gives observer name, date, and location, including a Google Maps plot of the location of the bird. It also gives an indication of whether the sighting has been confirmed (something listservs do not always provide). There is probably a way to have this gadget download alerts to my cell phone too, though I have not tried to configure it to do so. The gadget is updated every 15 minutes and works off submissions to eBird -- only by entering a sighting into eBird will it be displayed. Read more about the gadget, learn how to get it, and find out how to enter your sightings (not just of rare birds), at http://ebird.org (once there, click on the Fork-tailed Flycatcher for more information about the gadget). Participation in eBird has the larger goal of providing your valuable data to researchers, land managers, and others. Bar graphs and maps can be easily generated from your sightings or from all sightings submitted of a particular species or a particular location or hotspot. In my role as Western Great Lakes regional editor for North American Birds, I just received an Excel file of all sightings entered into eBird for the summer 2007 season (June-July) for Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin. -- Peder H. Svingen Duluth, MN Begin forwarded message: > From: do-not-reply at ebird.org > Date: August 9, 2007 4:39:09 PM CDT > To: psvingen at d.umn.edu > Subject: eBird Report - Park Point Recreation Area , 8/9/07 > > > Location: Park Point Recreation Area > Observation date: 8/9/07 > Notes: Offshore winds and intermittent rain showers produced a > nice little fallout at Park Point Recreation Area, Duluth, MN > 8/9/2007. It took almost three hours to cover the area between the bus > turnaround and the picnic pavilion. All observations by Peder H. > Svingen between 0935 and 1230. > Number of species: 16 (non-warbler species removed from this > message) > > Golden-winged Warbler 7 > Tennessee Warbler 1 > Nashville Warbler 78 Record-high fall migration count for this > species in Minnesota. > Northern Parula 1 > Yellow Warbler 34 Second highest fall migration count for this > species in Minnesota. > Magnolia Warbler 1 > Yellow-rumped Warbler 9 > Blackburnian Warbler 1 > Pine Warbler 1 > Palm Warbler 3 > Bay-breasted Warbler 2 > Black-and-white Warbler 14 > American Redstart 2 > Ovenbird 2 > Northern Waterthrush 2 > Common Yellowthroat 13 > > This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 3507 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20070809/bba12dff/attachment.bin