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Rare e-Bird Sightings

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Some time ago I added pages to this site where we could look at the e-Bird reports of rare bird sightings using a tool called BirdTrax. The developer of BirdTrax has stopped supporting its use and so I decided to develop a web site where birders from all over the U.S. and Canada can easily see the last 15 days of rare e-Bird reports in their home county or any other county.

I hope you’ll check out CountyRareBirds and register as a user with your preferred country, state and county. Then if you ask your computer to remember the site you can save it as a favorite and anytime you visit the site it will bring up your counties recent rare bird sightings as the default view. You can easily change the view to a different area if you are or plan to travel.

You can access CountyRareBirds.com easily anytime using the ABCbirding site menu bar link labeled “Rare Bird Sightings.”

Let me know what you think.

Thanks.

Ed

Minor Change to Bird Trax County Rare Birds Pages

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I found making the county rare birds pages for the ABC site easy, helpful and useful. It prompted me to decide to make a website dedicated to displaying last 2 weeks of e-Bird rare bird sightings for the rest of the U.S. for each state and its counties. Since I’ll attempt to support and keep this site current, I decided to replace the ABC e-Bird county rare bird pages with pages from the County Rare Birds site. This will help me avoid duplication of effort in maintaining both sets of pages, and will give ABC birders exposure to the County Rare Birds site’s other features. At this time these features include a page similar to the prior ABC County Rare Birds pages for all U.S. states and counties, as well as links that I deem useful for many states. See the WA Rare Birds page as an example. I’ve added easy links to the e-Bird Top 100 listers for Washington, and for a few select counties both for the current year and all-time.
I hope this is well received by ABC’ers. Let me know if you have any comments or suggestions.
Thanks.

Ed

All 39 Washington Counties now have E-bird Rarities page on the ABC Site

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I spent some time today implementing some ideas I have had for the ABC site. I like the county e-bird rarities feature I put up for a few local counties, so I expanded that to all 39 counties in WA. You can now look on the ABC right sidebar for a list of all 39 counties and a few bordering or nearby states and see links to pages that show the E-bird RBAs for those areas. I’m working on a photos area on the site, but that has been more problematic in terms of technical know-how so has not happened yet. Hope this new feature is something some of you find useful. Feel free to share with non-ABC birders around WA who may find it helpful.

Good birding.

Ed