Chip Notes - eBird Buzz

eBirders We recently published a news item highlighting the issue that many birders have identifying crows and ravens: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/crows_and_ravens We plan to do mor...

http://ebirdforum.blogspot.com/2011/03/what-are-problem-ids.html

We' like to take an informal poll here, since you all are some of our most active and thoughtful eBirders. A couple years back we released "Checklist Sharing" with some fanfare. this was somethi...

http://ebirdforum.blogspot.com/2011/02/to-share-or-not-to-share-that-is.html

We haven't posted much here recently, and are sorry for this. The winter doldrums have been a time where we have been working hard on several things at eBird, and we'll be sharing these with you ...

http://ebirdforum.blogspot.com/2011/02/more-occurrence-maps-being-published.html

All, We have posted five more dynamic migration maps on the "Occurrence Map " page. The new species are: Willow Flycatcher Eastern Bluebird Blackpoll Warbler White-throated Sparrow Western Mead...

http://ebirdforum.blogspot.com/2010/12/five-more-dyamic-migration-maps.html

eBirders, Spoiler alert: if you like quizzes, and want to figure out this map quiz before seeign a list of potential answers, go to our homepage story before reading on. We are excited to ann...

http://ebirdforum.blogspot.com/2010/12/ebird-animated-occurrence-maps-first.html

eBirders We are working at the moment on a redesign of the online data entry forms. These pages have changed little since 2002, and we've found that a growing number of you want more flexibilit...

http://ebirdforum.blogspot.com/2010/11/sneak-peak-at-new-data-entry.html

We have recently had an interesting discussion of summer bird movements on our local birding list. People have noticed a number of birds showing up in their yards and birding patches. I thought t...

http://ebirdforum.blogspot.com/2010/07/summer-bird-movements.html

We have been rather silent here, mostly because we have been furiously working on an ambitious new direction: Global eBird!! Our World Series effort mid-month was largely to raise additional mone...

http://ebirdforum.blogspot.com/2010/05/gloabl-ebird-assistance-welcomed.html

For the past few months I have been taking part in the eBird Site Survey. The idea behind the survey is to repeatedly count birds from the same location in the same way. Whether you do this ever...

http://ebirdforum.blogspot.com/2010/03/ebird-site-survey-at-monkey-run.html

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned on the eBird Tech Talk forum that we are continuing to open up the ability for people to interact with the eBird database. As some of our most passionate users, ...

http://ebirdforum.blogspot.com/2010/03/science-pipes-contest.html

eBirders Yesterday we launched the next wave of eBird alerts--the State Needs Alerts. The goal of these alerts is to send you notification on birds being reported in a given state, that you ha...

http://ebirdforum.blogspot.com/2010/02/feedback-on-state-needs-alerts.html

eBirders We recently launched a new service called 'eBird Alerts'. The first alert we have available is the "ABA Rarities" alert, which lists all of the rarities reported in the ABA area of Co...

http://ebirdforum.blogspot.com/2010/01/grand-plan-for-ebird-alerts.html

Just in case you hadn't seen it, the eBird homepage is now featuring news of a contest we are running next week (24-31 Jan) which will award as a prize 20 versions of BirdsEye (the cool new app t...

http://ebirdforum.blogspot.com/2010/01/contest-for-free-birdseye-iphone-apps.html

eBirders For the past several months we've been preparing to migrate the massive eBird database and all the front-end functionality over to a newer, more powerful server. Thanks to the work of a...

http://ebirdforum.blogspot.com/2010/01/ebird-switches-to-new-database-server.html

Our eBird bloggers include some of our most active, committed, and tech-savvy eBirders. It is this last element that we'd like to draw upon in this post, since it is really a call for help. We p...

http://ebirdforum.blogspot.com/2009/10/parsing-help.html

eBirders Over the past two years we've been developing tools that showcase our users, and in so doing we've made more and more of the eBird data easily accessible to the public. One of the thing...

http://ebirdforum.blogspot.com/2009/09/revealing-personal-locations-how-do-you.html

eBirders, Has there ever been anything that you have wanted to enter in eBird but have been unable to? Something like "eider sp." or "booby sp.", a rare hybrid that you saw (like Glaucous x Grea...

http://ebirdforum.blogspot.com/2009/09/ebird-taxonomic-revision.html

eBirders We've just put up a participant survey on the eBird site. The goal of the survey is to try to figure out a few things: 1. we have many choices ahead of us in terms of eBird development,...

http://ebirdforum.blogspot.com/2009/08/take-ebird-survey.html

eBirders We're about to test out the ability to give online eBird presentations through a tool called Yugma. It will allow individuals to see our desktop and interact with us via an online forum...

http://ebirdforum.blogspot.com/2009/07/ebird-online-presentations.html

eBirders We've just posted some promotional materials on the eBird site at this URL: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/about/ebird-promotional-material . The first powerpoint is a general eBird ove...

http://ebirdforum.blogspot.com/2009/07/help-spread-word-ebird-promo-materials.html

eBirders This summer we're working on performance issues at eBird. Some birders who have lots of checklists are seeing really slow load times for things like the My eBird page, and we need to ma...

http://ebirdforum.blogspot.com/2009/06/ebird-under-hood.html

eBirders We're in the process of developing ways to try to inspire people to get out to different parts of the country and collect eBird data. Birders are often creatures of habit, which is a ...

http://ebirdforum.blogspot.com/2009/06/check-out-ebirds-most-wanted-counties.html

I think a lot of birders tend to think of June and July as the quiet season for migrants. These are certainly the lowest months for participation in eBird (in terms of the number of checklists su...

http://ebirdforum.blogspot.com/2009/06/migrants-in-june-yes-june.html

eBirders Concerning Dany's recent post that the eBird Blog is boring, well, the other option here is to open this up to the eBird community for posting messages, asking questions etc. of each ot...

http://ebirdforum.blogspot.com/2009/06/should-this-blog-be-open-forum.html

eBirders It's great to see so many comments and interest in eBird. I'll try to keep the blog fresh with periodic posts like this so people can pose questions (about eBird only please!), comments...

http://ebirdforum.blogspot.com/2009/06/3-june-2009-ebird-questions-comments.html