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Hi all,

I agree with James and Keith that eBird is the way to go. I also totally ge=
t why not everyone uses it; I=92m an irregular user myself (I=92ve got a ha=
ng-up about filling forms in general =97 bad associations, I guess, though =
I=92m trying to get over it).

A quick fix to centralizing observations would be to set up an eBird accoun=
t for NS Birds*, where someone who=92s trolling facebook or whatever for ra=
rities anyway (ACCDC? seasonal editors for NS Birds? or 4 volunteers out of=
 the >1900 NSBS facebook members?) could simply enter them as an incidental=
 sighting. The sightings could automatically appear on the NS Birds website=
, just like local eBird goodies already do on James Churchill=92s handy sit=
e here: http://bluehourbirding.blogspot.ca

That solution could happen right now, and would let facebookers be facebook=
ers, naturens=92ers be naturens=92ers, etc =97 wherever each individual bir=
der has the most fun sharing their sightings.

Cheers,
Andy Horn
Halifax

*PS The source of the sighting could be entered in the Comments, but if tha=
t=92s too much of a pain (it would be for me!), there could be an eBird acc=
ount for each source (NSBSfacebook, naturens, etc). That would show where o=
ne could go for more info, and would still get all of them to show up all t=
ogether in eBird.

On Mar 25, 2014, at 8:57 AM, Keith Lowe <mythos25@live.com<mailto:mythos25@=
live.com>> wrote:


I'm new around here but I would like to chime in with a perspective from so=
meone new to birding.  I know everyone has heard it all before but I cannot=
 help stating how invaluable I've found eBird in getting me started into bi=
rding. After a couple of months, the birding itself is primarily driving my=
 interest in birding now--maybe a bit more than it should! But I don't know=
 that I would have taken to birding if not for discovering eBird early on. =
I think it is a treasure trove of information and every checklist provides =
beneficial information for many years to come. The ability to filter and dr=
ill down into the data is awesome and I've perused hundreds of checklists a=
nd hotspots to plan my trips and target species and I sure appreciate havin=
g all that information at my fingertips. It is really convenient how eBird =
automatically keeps track of my nascent year and life lists (which are the =
same at this point) as well country, province and county lists. And l reall=
y like that submitting checklists to eBird helps the birds.

It would be awesome if all observations made it to eBird and if posts from =
all sources were continually amalgamated but I'm sure neither would be easy=
. I assume there is no way to make posts about important observations on Fa=
cebook to be viewable by the public without opening up the entire site?

Keith Lowe

On 2014-03-24 8:39 PM, James Churchill wrote:

hi folks,
Great topic Richard/Ian and something I think a number of people might be i=
nterested in (well, I am!).
Folks writing sections for the NS Birds Magazine (NSBS quarterly) are very =
familiar with this too - trying to parse and collate data from each of thes=
e venues.

One part, philosophical, one part technical, one part quality control, one =
part privacy...

One venue or many?
Encouraging people to use a single mechanism for reporting - like eBird - c=
ould go a long way, but there is still a large percentage of people that mi=
ght never go that route and prefer more social mechanisms like Facebook and=
 naturens (not that naturens is social media - just that it hosts discussio=
n as well) where a lot of great sightings are posted. Arguably, a more-crit=
ical mass of people could be encouraged/convinced to eBird, but with ever-i=
ncreasing options for reporting/discussing sightings (listservs, social med=
ia apps, eBird, websites, photo sites) I doubt we would ever approach too-n=
ear-unanimity with a single mechanism.

A couple years ago I mapped the Indigo Bunting fallout (2012?) and the dist=
ribution/spread of Red-bellied Woodpeckers in the province - about 20-30% o=
f sightings from NS-RBA and naturens had made it to eBird. And, I believe i=
t was around 50% of Snowy Owl sightings made it to eBird this year.

Alternatively, instead of, or as well as, trying to encourage people to sub=
mit to eBird (or whichever central repository), another approach could be t=
o make it easy for people to get email messages and facebook posts into eBi=
rd. I think Richard and others are right that no one has time to report sig=
htings on several different sites. The approach here would be PARSING, wher=
e when a user posts to facebook or naturens, they have the option to also s=
ubmit this as a record to eBird (etc) - the message would be parsed behind =
the scenes to extract the relevant info, the user reviews/modifies, and cli=
cks submit and it goes to eBird.

On Facebook or Flicker, this could work via a third party app...that doesn'=
t exist yet, that I know of...when you post, you have the option to "eBird =
this post" - any developers in the house?
On listservs, this could work with a little bit of parsing code, e.g., on t=
he html messages at http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/FNSN/MList/ (I ha=
ve started this, but have about as much time as Richard). If parsed well, t=
he details of the sighting could be exported into a format amenable to eBir=
d's upload-from-file portal.

When doing this, the same questions of data quality arise as with current e=
Bird data...and this would have to be balanced against the value accrued by=
 the additional records. But there are ways to assign confidence to observa=
tions, just like we do manually when reviewing reports.

I imagine this is a problem that more and more people will face in the year=
s to come. Since it will become harder and harder to parse information from=
 all these various sources, manually, my perspective is that an automated s=
olution (with review) will be most sustainable.

would be happy to be part of a solution-finding party...
cheers,

James


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Richard Stern <sternrichard@gmail.com<mail=
to:sternrichard@gmail.com>> wrote:

This brings up a more general point. At present, bird sightings and photos =
in NS are being reported to NatureNS, NS-RBA, the NSBS Facebook page, and E=
Bird, or any, but rarely all, of the above. So it's easy to miss stuff if y=
ou don't spend the time monitoring all those sources. It's hard enough for =
a casual observer, and must be doubly hard for someone trying to collate da=
ta for a project, or the NSBS magazine etc. If I had the time (which hopefu=
lly I might in the few years) I would offer to try and coordinate this stuf=
f into, say, a daily digest in the NSBS web site or Facebook page, or RSS f=
eed, but does anyone have any other thoughts or the time to do it?

Richard


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Ian McLaren <I.A.McLaren@dal.ca<mailto:I.A=
.McLaren@dal.ca>> wrote:



AlL:


Those who don't monitor the NS Bird Sociey's Facebook site (even every 2 or=
 3 days) will miss what has become, for better or worse,the only source of =
some unusual sightings. In the last few days, these have included an Little=
 Blue Heron photo'd 23 Mar. at Round Bay, Shel. Co. (Laurel Marie Amirault)=
, an American  Bittern photo'd at Hemeons Head, Shel. Co., and a photo'd Sn=
ow Goose with Canadas 23 Mar. near Truro (Kate Messer). There have also bee=
n a number of first spring arrivals there.


It would be helpful of such 'good' birds could also be reported on NatureNS=
 and/or NS-RBA.


Cheers, Ian McLaren



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Richard Stern,
Port Williams, NS, Canada
sternrichard@gmail.com<mailto:sternrichard@gmail.com>
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James Churchill
Kentville, Nova Scotia
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Hi all,
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I agree with James and Keith that eBird is the way to go. I also total=
ly get why not everyone uses it; I=92m an irregular user myself (I=92ve got=
 a hang-up about filling forms in general =97 bad associations, I guess, th=
ough I=92m trying to get over it).</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>A quick fix to centralizing observations would be to set up an eBird a=
ccount for NS Birds*, where someone who=92s trolling facebook or whatever f=
or rarities anyway (ACCDC? seasonal editors for NS Birds? or 4 volunteers o=
ut of the &gt;1900 NSBS facebook members?)
 could simply enter them as an incidental sighting. The sightings could aut=
omatically appear on the NS Birds website, just like local eBird goodies al=
ready do on James Churchill=92s handy site here:&nbsp;<a href=3D"http://blu=
ehourbirding.blogspot.ca">http://bluehourbirding.blogspot.ca</a></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>That solution could happen right now, and would let facebookers be fac=
ebookers, naturens=92ers be naturens=92ers, etc =97 wherever each individua=
l birder has the most fun sharing their sightings.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>Andy Horn</div>
<div>Halifax</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>*PS The source of the sighting could be entered in the Comments, but i=
f that=92s too much of a pain (it would be for me!), there could be an eBir=
d account for each source (NSBSfacebook, naturens, etc). That would show wh=
ere one could go for more info, and
 would still get all of them to show up all together in eBird.</div>
<div><br>
<div>
<div>On Mar 25, 2014, at 8:57 AM, Keith Lowe &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:mythos25=
@live.com">mythos25@live.com</a>&gt; wrote:</div>
<br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline">
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font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-hei=
ght: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-trans=
form: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-t=
ext-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<div id=3D"ygrp-mlmsg" style=3D"font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, helvet=
ica, clean, sans-serif; position: relative;">
<div id=3D"ygrp-msg" style=3D"line-height: 1.22em; z-index: 1;">
<div id=3D"ygrp-text" style=3D"line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Georgia;">
<div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><br class=3D"webki=
t-block-placeholder">
</div>
<div class=3D"moz-cite-prefix" style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">I'm new aroun=
d here but I would like to chime in with a perspective from someone new to =
birding.&nbsp; I know everyone has heard it all before but I cannot help st=
ating how invaluable I've found eBird in
 getting me started into birding. After a couple of months, the birding its=
elf is primarily driving my interest in birding now--maybe a bit more than =
it should! But I don't know that I would have taken to birding if not for d=
iscovering eBird early on. I think
 it is a treasure trove of information and every checklist provides benefic=
ial information for many years to come. The ability to filter and drill dow=
n into the data is awesome and I've perused hundreds of checklists and hots=
pots to plan my trips and target
 species and I sure appreciate having all that information at my fingertips=
. It is really convenient how eBird automatically keeps track of my nascent=
 year and life lists (which are the same at this point) as well country, pr=
ovince and county lists. And l really
 like that submitting checklists to eBird helps the birds.<span class=3D"Ap=
ple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><br style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">
<br style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">
It would be awesome if all observations made it to eBird and if posts from =
all sources were continually amalgamated but I'm sure neither would be easy=
. I assume there is no way to make posts about important observations on Fa=
cebook to be viewable by the public
 without opening up the entire site?<br style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">
<br style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">
Keith Lowe<br style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">
<br style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">
On 2014-03-24 8:39 PM, James Churchill wrote:<br style=3D"line-height: 1.22=
em;">
</div>
<blockquote cite=3D"mid:CADF8qtZ6E5NFrRQ6iR7b4KsrwtR6=3D9RZv_XHtu_J_mo5VZPP=
RA@mail.gmail.com" type=3D"cite" style=3D"margin: 0px 0px 0px 4px; line-hei=
ght: 1.22em;">
<span style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">&nbsp;</span>
<div id=3D"ygrp-text" style=3D"line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Georgia;">
<div dir=3D"ltr" style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">hi folks,&nbsp;
<div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">Great topic Richard/Ian and something I=
 think a number of people might be interested in (well, I am!).&nbsp;</div>
<div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">Folks writing sections for the NS Birds=
 Magazine (NSBS quarterly) are very familiar with this too - trying to pars=
e and collate data from each of these venues.&nbsp;</div>
<div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;"><br style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">
</div>
<div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">One part, philosophical, one part techn=
ical, one part quality control, one part privacy...</div>
<div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;"><br style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">
</div>
<div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;"><b style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">One v=
enue or many?</b></div>
<div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">Encouraging people to use a single mech=
anism for reporting - like eBird - could go a long way, but there is still =
a large percentage of people that might never go that route and prefer more=
 social mechanisms like Facebook and
 naturens (not that naturens is social media - just that it hosts discussio=
n as well) where a lot of great sightings are posted. Arguably, a more-crit=
ical mass of people could be encouraged/convinced to eBird, but with ever-i=
ncreasing options for reporting/discussing
 sightings (listservs, social media apps, eBird, websites, photo sites) I d=
oubt we would ever approach too-near-unanimity with a single mechanism.&nbs=
p;</div>
<div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;"><br style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">
</div>
<div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">A couple years ago I mapped the Indigo =
Bunting fallout (2012?) and the distribution/spread of Red-bellied Woodpeck=
ers in the province - about 20-30% of sightings from NS-RBA and naturens ha=
d made it to eBird. And, I believe
 it was around 50% of Snowy Owl sightings made it to eBird this year.</div>
<div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;"><br style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">
</div>
<div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">Alternatively, instead of, or as well a=
s, trying to encourage people to submit to eBird (or whichever central repo=
sitory), another approach could be to make it easy for people to get email =
messages and facebook posts<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</sp=
an><i style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">into<span class=3D"Apple-converted-spa=
ce">&nbsp;</span></i>eBird.
 I think Richard and others are right that no one has time to report sighti=
ngs on several different sites. The approach here would be<span class=3D"Ap=
ple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><u style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">PARSING=
</u>, where when a user posts to facebook
 or naturens, they have the option to also submit this as a record to eBird=
 (etc) - the message would be parsed behind the scenes to extract the relev=
ant info, the user reviews/modifies, and clicks submit and it goes to eBird=
.&nbsp;</div>
<div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;"><br style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">
</div>
<div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">On Facebook or Flicker, this could work=
 via a third party app...that doesn't exist yet, that I know of...when you =
post, you have the option to &quot;eBird this post&quot; - any developers i=
n the house?</div>
<div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">On listservs, this could work with a li=
ttle bit of parsing code, e.g., on the html messages at&nbsp;<a moz=3D"true=
" href=3D"http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/FNSN/MList/" target=3D"_bla=
nk" style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/FN=
SN/MList/</a><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>(I
 have started this, but have about as much time as Richard). If parsed well=
, the details of the sighting could be exported into a format amenable to e=
Bird's upload-from-file portal.<br style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">
</div>
<div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;"><br style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">
</div>
<div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">When doing this, the same questions of =
data quality arise as with current eBird data...and this would have to be b=
alanced against the value accrued by the additional records. But there are =
ways to assign confidence to observations,
 just like we do manually when reviewing reports.<br style=3D"line-height: =
1.22em;">
</div>
<div class=3D"gmail_extra" style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;"><br style=3D"line=
-height: 1.22em;">
</div>
<div class=3D"gmail_extra" style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">I imagine this is=
 a problem that more and more people will face in the years to come. Since =
it will become harder and harder to parse information from all these variou=
s sources, manually, my perspective
 is that an automated solution (with review) will be most sustainable.</div>
<div class=3D"gmail_extra" style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;"><br style=3D"line=
-height: 1.22em;">
</div>
<div class=3D"gmail_extra" style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">would be happy to=
 be part of a solution-finding party...</div>
<div class=3D"gmail_extra" style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">cheers, &nbsp;&nb=
sp;</div>
<div class=3D"gmail_extra" style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;"><br style=3D"line=
-height: 1.22em;">
</div>
<div class=3D"gmail_extra" style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">James&nbsp;</div>
<div class=3D"gmail_extra" style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">&nbsp;<br style=
=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">
</div>
<div class=3D"gmail_extra" style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;"><br style=3D"line=
-height: 1.22em;">
<div class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">On Mon, Mar 24, 2=
014 at 2:13 PM, Richard Stern<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</=
span><span dir=3D"ltr" style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">&lt;<a moz=3D"true" h=
ref=3D"mailto:sternrichard@gmail.com" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"line-heigh=
t: 1.22em;">sternrichard@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><span class=3D"Apple-conve=
rted-space">&nbsp;</span>wrote:<br style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; line-=
height: 1.22em; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 20=
4); border-left-style: solid;">
<div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;"><span style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">&n=
bsp;</span>
<div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">
<div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">
<div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">
<div dir=3D"ltr" style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">
<div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">This brings up a more general point. At=
 present, bird sightings and photos in NS are being reported to NatureNS, N=
S-RBA, the NSBS Facebook page, and EBird, or any, but rarely all, of the ab=
ove. So it's easy to miss stuff if
 you don't spend the time monitoring all those sources. It's hard enough fo=
r a casual observer, and must be doubly hard for someone trying to collate =
data for a project, or the NSBS magazine etc. If I had the time (which hope=
fully I might in the few years)
 I would offer to try and coordinate this stuff into, say, a daily digest i=
n the NSBS web site or Facebook page, or RSS feed, but does anyone have any=
 other thoughts or the time to do it?<br style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">
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Richard<br style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">
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014 at 1:06 PM, Ian McLaren<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</sp=
an><span dir=3D"ltr" style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">&lt;<a moz=3D"true" hre=
f=3D"mailto:I.A.McLaren@dal.ca" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"line-height: 1.2=
2em;">I.A.McLaren@dal.ca</a>&gt;</span><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space=
">&nbsp;</span>wrote:<br style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">
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bsp;</span>
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<p style=3D"line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">AlL:&nbsp;<br style=
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<p style=3D"line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Those who don't moni=
tor the NS Bird Sociey's Facebook site (even every 2 or 3&nbsp;days) will m=
iss what has become, for better or worse,the only source of some&nbsp;unusu=
al sightings. In the last few days, these have
 included an Little Blue Heron photo'd 23 Mar.&nbsp;at Round Bay, Shel. Co.=
 (Laurel Marie Amirault), an American &nbsp;Bittern photo'd at Hemeons Head=
, Shel. Co.,&nbsp;and a photo'd&nbsp;Snow Goose&nbsp;with Canadas 23 Mar.&n=
bsp;near Truro&nbsp;(Kate Messer). There have also been a number of
 first spring arrivals there.<br style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;">
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<p style=3D"line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">It would be helpful =
of such 'good'&nbsp;birds could also be reported on NatureNS and/or NS-RBA.=
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<p style=3D"line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Cheers, Ian McLaren&=
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