Re: [mou-net] Bird sightings

2020-08-17 Thread Nina Hale
I really enjoy the birding groups on Facebook. Some of them do a very good job of very rapid notification of rare sightings. That being said I took a break from Facebook about 7 weeks ago and plan to stay off until after the election. So this is my main source other than eBird emails! Thanks Nina

Re: [mou-net] Bird sightings

2020-08-17 Thread Alex
There are two very popular bird ID groups on Facebook: What’s this Bird? run by the ABA and The Bird Identification Group of the World run by community members. The chief differences between the two are that The Bird ID Group requires reasonings for IDs or hints to be given to lead the poster to

[mou-net] Bird sightings

2020-08-17 Thread Jeanie Joppru
 I should have said “start an ID only group on Facebook” I tend to agree with much that has been said about Facebook. I do enjoy it for contact with others and other interesting posts( not the ads), however , but not for bird sightings. It is too diffuse, too many ways to report, and you ca

[mou-net] Bird sightings

2020-08-17 Thread Jeanie Joppru
I tend to agree with much that has been said about Facebook. I do enjoy it for contact with others and other interesting posts( not the ads), however , but not for bird sightings. It is too diffuse, too many ways to report, and you can’t ever find what you saw yesterday when you had no option to