[va_co_birding] Re: One more topic

Well, I guess I'll chime in here since both Todd and Mike have spilled 
the beans about a county listing website.  Yes, I had planned on putting 
something together but now I'm wondering if I'll have the time.  
Regardless of that, I am happy to post comp lists for any and all 
counties/cities as long as I don't have to be the compiler.  If you want 
to put something together and e-mail it to me, I'll put it up right away.

So, back to the subject of a county listing website.  I would like to 
get some feedback on this idea so if I do have time, I'll know how to do 
it.  I had orginally planned on getting people to submit their lists for 
counties with a few simple rules.  County lists have to be over 100, 
cities over 50, except a couple cities that are as large a county (e.g. 
VA Beach which has to be 100).  Just stuff like that to keep me from 
having to post lists too often.  I would then post the lists for the 
appropriate county so others could see what birds have been seen in that 
county, who has the most, etc.  However, on further thought it occurs to 
me that it would probably be a good idea to post not only the species 
but the date and location associated with the sighting.  The reason for 
this is that some folks have been county listing for a long time and may 
have seen a Brown-headed Nuthatch somewhere 20 years ago where they 
aren't anymore.  If you looking at a list it would be good to know how 
old the sighting is.  Similarly, if you want to find a specific bird in 
a county, then it would be good to pull up someone else's list and see 
where and when they saw it.  So that all sounds great and everything but 
putting the lists up on the internet just got a lot more complicated.  I 
suppose if I required a certain format (e.g. a table in MS Word or 
something) then I could easily convert it to a webpage and put it up.  
Anyway, I'd like to know what other people think about this idea.  
Eventually, we could expand it to include places to bird in each county 
and other useful stuff.  Anyway, let me know what you think.

Sue

-- 
Susan A. Heath
George Mason University
Environmental Science Department
Fairfax, VA

Secretary, Virginia Avian Records Committee
Keeper, Virginia Comp List at www.obscure-reference.com/~sheath



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