[texbirds] Re: Common Crane
- From: Eric Carpenter <ecarpe@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Anthony Hewetson <fattonybirds@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 17:40:16 -0600
For better or worse, this forum is not the most useful for getting
real-time updates on sightings for stuff like Common Crane. Though I
can understand one's resistance to join Facebook, groups on Facebook
are currently the most useful in general for hearing about such
rarities (and for seeing photos) and for getting timely, often
in-the-field, updates. eBird is also quite useful in that you can set
up alerts to tell you, within the hour, about birds that have been
seen. Both eBird and Facebook have mobile apps that are more
conducive to real-time updates than a listserv.
An option that you can also check that doesn't require you to sign up
for something is the (free) TX RBA put out by the folks at NARBA. You
can see updates on this page:
http://narba.org/texas-rba
You might notice there that 6 of the 7 sources (this forum being the
7th) they list at the top are either Facebook or eBird related.
--
Eric Carpenter
Austin
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Anthony Hewetson
<fattonybirds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Greetings All:
> It would be fantastic if more folk would post their sightings of the Common
> Crane to texbirds. A lot of folk don't facebook (or don't facebook the
> right people) and it is devilishly hard for regional compilers to track so
> many social media at once.
>
> For example, was the bird seen on the 23rd. If so, I either didn't get the
> texbirds post or no posts were made. The former is certainly possible
> though I do think I am getting every texbirds post made now that I got rid
> of my yahoo account. The latter seems more likely and, if so, this made it
> very hard for me to answer the ten-twenty e-mails I got yesterday asking if
> the bird was still being seen.
>
> So, in advance, my heartfelt appreciation to everybody who posts their
> sighting of this bird to texbirds.
>
> As far as there being two Common Cranes, this is the first I've heard about
> it .... and I would love to get more details about when, where, and who saw
> two birds.
>
> Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
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