Texbirders- Ten years ago when there were very few hotspots in Texas and one
had to look them up via a list instead of from a map it made sense to me to
have each city's hotspots prefaced by the city name as it made them easier to
find. However now with some cities with close to 100 hotspots, and hotspots now
being found visually on a map, and ebird officially advising a different naming
protocol, I think it's time to drop the city name as a preface to ebird
hotspots in the major Texas cities. If there is strong opposition to this
please let me know soon. Otherwise you will over the next few weeks see the
city name being dropped from the beginning of hotspots in Texas cities as They
are individually changed over to comply with ebird naming protocol. Thus for
hotspots in Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, Corpus Christi, Houston etc. the city
name followed by a double dash will no longer appear at beginning of ebird
hotspot name. Please email me offline with
comments unless you feel texbirds in general would be interested in more
discussion of this topic.
I think for small Texas cities with two to ten hotspots it still might make
sense to Retain the current method of grouping all of the cities' hotspots
grouped together under the name of the city but am interested in what people
think. Although this is current practice it is not what ebird recommends.
Merry Christmas (or Happy Holidays)
John Berner
Texas ebird hotspot editor
Minneapolis, MN (temporarily)
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