[orebird] Re: heads up on Oregon 2020 hotspots
- From: "deborah.holland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <deborah.holland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <orebird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,"orebird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <orebird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 03 May 2014 20:05:05 -0700 (PDT)
Hi, Today a visiter from Lake Oswego posted a checklist
> at the 'Oregon20/20-- Lincoln City' hotspot. She observed
> 20 Western Gulls. I'm wondering if she was at the
> Oregon20/20--Lincoln City hotspot or if she was on
> a beach elsewhere in Lincoln City, and thought that
> Oregon20/20--Lincoln City meant anywhere in Lincoln
> City. Can't tell. If these new hotspots are meant
> to be unique locations, it would be best to give them
> unique names that cannot be confused with Lincoln
> City, Newport or Alsea Bay. Chestnut Chickadee? Wandering
> Tattler? Warbling Vireo? Deb Holland
> > > Doug,
>
>
>
> I live near the Anna's Hummingbird square in Eugene.
> There is a hotspot inside the square (EWEB wetlands).
> How will situations like this be handled? Should
> I double-post if I'm birding the EWEB wetlands? Or
> only use the Anna's Hummingbird spot outside of the
> EWEB location?
>
> Vjera
>
> > > > On Monday, April 21, 2014 3:52 PM, W. Douglas Robinson
> <w.douglas.robinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi gang,
>
> Just a heads-up that there will be a bunch of new
> Oregon hotspots added to the state in the next few
> days. We've been working with eBird and Brian Sullivan
> to get a grid-like sampling scheme established for
> Oregon 2020. Through lots of discussions and planning
> we realized that to meet the main goal of 2020, to
> establish benchmark measurements of Oregon bird distributions
> and abundances, we need more structure to how we sample
> birds across the state. This resulted in a type of
> sampling grid that is stratified across townships,
> but preserves an element of randomization (a necessary
> assumption of statistical approaches that will let
> us estimate statewide population sizes). The sites,
> what we call hotspot squares, are one mile square
> sections selected randomly from each 36-square mile
> township in the state. That totals about 2800 of these
> sample sites.
>
> You can see the sites here:
>
> http://tools.oregonexplorer.info/oe_map_viewer_2_0/Viewe
> r.html?Viewer=Oregon2020
>
> We will be announcing all these updates with more
> explanation of why we picked areas of this size, etc,
> on the 2020 web page, OBOL and the upcoming eBird
> Northwest portal very soon, especially since breeding
> season is upon us.
>
> All of the hotspot squares are named "Oregon 2020--hotspot
> square name". So, all begin with Oregon 2020--
>
> They have unique names, associated with a geographical
> feature, road, etc, within each one-square mile hotspot
> square. However, a subset of about 300 of these (11%
> of the total) are named after birds; e.g., Oregon
> 2020--Evening Grosbeak. These are called the Hot 300
> and we will be developing some challenges associated
> with counting birds in as many of the Hot 300 as possible.
> We aim to have prizes from sponsors for those who
> contribute the most from the Hot 300, all the hotspot
> squares in each county, and all the hotspot squares
> statewide. It should be really fun.
>
> Anyway, this email is just to alert you that this
> is happening, that you will be able to use the Explorer
> Tools on eBird to see who has visited each hotspot
> square and what they saw, and to easily locate each
> hotspot square if you use BirdLog to enter data. All
>
>
> Let me know if you have questions.
>
> All the best,
> Doug
> ..
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