Thanks, Andrew! Alas, I find myself increasingly dependent on a handful of responsible citizens such as yourself who regularly cross-post. Case in point, I was blissfully unaware of this noteworthy find (already a couple of days old) and suspect the same is true for many hundreds of birders across the state. With the explosion of different social media platforms, we took one step forward and two steps back. Keeping up with things only seems to be getting harder and think it's high time the birders of New York State came up with a simple, equitable solution to timely rare bird news sharing.
The eBird alerts are great but lack prioritization and can be a little overwhelming at times. Likewise, there are too many area-specific Twitter feeds and who knows what else for anyone to keep track of. Some people are clearly better plugged in than others and it would useful to hear about the strategies they use to monitor the airwaves. For now, cross-posting to this STATEWIDE listserve (NYSBIRDS-L) is always worthwhile. Angus Wilson New York City -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
