We have just witnessed an incredible hurricane, with historic bird consequences. We need everybody's help to capture their observations into eBird, as Marshall Iliff describes below.... There is a lot to be learned from a panoramic Florida-to-Maine-&-the-Maritmes view of what this hurricane did, so please enter your field observations into eBird as soon as possible, within a week or so. (And additionally do not forget your state avian records committee if your bird is that level of rarity.) There is really quite an amazing story here, so lets try to document all of it, please. Tom Robben
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marshall Iliff <mil...@aol.com> Date: Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:30 PM Subject: Fwd: Hurricane Irene redux on eBird To: nbon...@gmail.com, birdfreak...@yahoo.com, Steve Mirick < smir...@comcast.net>, t...@cornell.edu, polly...@att.net, Thomas Robben < robbe...@gmail.com>, Andy Farnsworth <a...@cornell.edu>, Bill Hubick < bill_hub...@yahoo.com>, Ned Brinkley <ensif...@aol.com>, Nathan Dias < d...@crbo.net>, spencer hardy <curlewsandpipe...@gmail.com> Would welcome cross-posts on this...we really have an opportunity to have all the storm watches in eBird if we act now... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marshall Iliff <mil...@aol.com> Date: Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:27 PM Subject: Hurricane Irene redux on eBird To: Massbird <massb...@theworld.com>, bostonbi...@googlegroups.com Massbird, With news still coming in for reports from Hurricane Irene, I have posted a tentative summary of some of the news with visualizations from eBird etc. See the story here: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/hurricane-irene-redux We already have a couple hundred Sooty Tern sightings in eBird but there are many more that we still need to get in the system. Only about half of the tropicbirds are in, so the Delaware, upstate New York, New Hampshire, and one of the New York City sightings still need to be entered. Many Rhode Island and eastern Massachusetts finds are yet to be entered as well, and it would be great to be able to see a full picture for any species within the next week or so. So again, please encourage your friends who got out storm birding to help us compile all the sightings in one place. We are very interested in using eBird to gain a better understanding of this storm, so we invite all birders who got out seeking storm-blown seabirds to please please PLEASE submit those sightings to eBird (whether or not you connected with anyrarities--the negative data is helpful too). We hope to be able to produce an animated summary of Sooty Tern sightings, showing the progression of the storm and where and when sooty Terns appeared. If we can get this together quick enough (it will depend on New England birders making sure all Sooty Tern sightings have been entered with correct times), then maybe the visualization will help us all make better storm birding plans for Hurricane Katia http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at2+shtml/024712.shtml?5-daynl. Thanks, and if anyone has questions about how to get their storm birding list into eBird, please get in touch with me directly. Best, Marshall Iliff **************************** Marshall J. Iliff miliff AT aol.com West Roxbury, MA **************************** eBird/AKN Project Leader www.ebird.org www.avianknowledge.net Cornell Lab of Ornithology Ithaca, NY **************************** -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
