The Oregon 2020 hotspots are not roads. They are one-square mile sections. Most
have road access.
I will hop on my usual soapbox and say I wish we would encourage folks to do
more stationary counts and fewer long traveling counts. When people do
traveling counts we lose our ability to tie birds with habitat data at fine
resolution. Great for coarse resolution analyses, rotten for anything more
meaningful. So, I would hope that road hotspots would be short whenever we feel
it is useful to have them.
Doug
On Feb 9, 2017, at 8:09 AM, Greg Haworth <g.haworth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There are a LOT of roads that are currently hot spots. And in looking at a
few and actually birding a few, i agree with Tom that is is situational.
The ones i am familiar with are
1) Rentenaar Rd in Columbia County - 1 mile long
2) Anderson Rd in Clackamas County - 2 miles long
3) Blount Swale (along Blount Rd) in Clackamas County - 1/2 mile long.
4) Svenson Island Rd in Clatsop County - 1/2 mile long.
I am not familiar with Tillamook River Rd in Tillamook County but it looks to
me that might be pushing it, maybe not, it is bounded.
Also, there are a ton of the Oregon 2020 hot spot that are just roads as well.
greg
On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 10:06 AM, Tom Crabtree <tc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Vjera,
Ebird protocols are to avoid routes longer than 5 miles. That, I think,
would limit the ability to make roads a hotspot. Technically you would need
26 such hotspots to cover Hwy 20 from Bend to Burns. There are some roads
that might make sense, but I think those would be a very small number.
Tom Crabtree, Bend
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Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2017 9:24 PM
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Subject: [orebird] Road-based hotspots
Hello all,
I need to review 30 or 40 suggested hotspots that are roads. One of the
things I'm looking for before approving a hotspot is that the boundaries are
clear. Parks and campgrounds are very straightforward--anyone can look up
the boundaries. Everyone knows when they're on a certain road, but they
often go for many miles and through different habitats. Also, it's hard for
me to know if there's a safe place to pull over on the road, and I don't
want to approve hotspots that may not be safe birding locations.
Does anyone have any opinions that would help me decide whether to approve
them? Are short roads okay? Should I avoid them altogether? The eBird
article doesn't speak directly to this issue.
Vjera Thompson
vireogirl@xxxxxxxxx
or nemesisquail@xxxxxxxxx
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