[TN-Bird] Notice to All TN-Bird Subscribers

To TN-Bird Subscribers:
Our birders and subscribers have been doing so well with detailed reports that 
it has been many months since a reminder has been needed about the subject.

Recently we have had a few subscribers who don't remember to include details of 
bird report locations ( INCLUDING COUNTY ) or they just don't believe they need 
to be concerned.  I usually make direct contact with persons who are having 
problems.  

It is very easy to determine when someone simply forgets or makes a slight 
oversight.  We all can recognize them and they need no reminder.  When the 
situation begins to appear with more frequency, I send a mesage to remind 
everyone.  

The experienced and informed subscribers do an excellent job of making this 
work and by setting good examples.  It is appreciated.

We need county locations so new subscribers and those editing data for 
publication in "The Season" section of the Tennessee journal of ornithology can 
locate certain areas more easily.

Please include all useful information in the body text of your messag and not 
assume that readers will get part of the information from your subject line. 

We have new subscribers coming on TN-Birds almost daily and sometimes several 
in a days time.  Combined with the churn, which includes those unsubscribing, I 
estimate approximately 1,000 birders, biologists, wildlifers and natural 
resources managers who are reading or using data from TN-Birds.  

Recently, an environmental consulting group in Atlanta contacted me to say they 
were using TN-Birds to map locations of Great Blue Heron nesting colonies in 
Northeast Tennessee and needed to get more precise information.   Mike Rodel 
with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is archiving everything from 
TN-Birds for state management purposes.  Many federal and state agencies are 
collecting significant information.

If you think subscribers on this list know the location you are talking about 
when you simply mention it by name, then that is a good indication that you are 
not providing enough details.  Always write everything for everyone.  

Do not write just to your bird club members or your birding friends thinking 
they are the only ones who care.  It is ok to put such local information on the 
list.  Just make sure it contains details for all subscribers.

TN-Birds Net is one of the most orderly and useful state lists in this nation.  
We should be proud of the fact that we are what some state lists would like to 
be.

Let's go birding.....

Wallace Coffey
Moderator TN-Birds
Tennessee Ornithological Society
Bristol, TN










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