I also agree with these comments. I like the existing naming convention for the
same reasons eloquently stated below.
Terry Woodward
Katy
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On Dec 26, 2016, at 10:41, Keith Hackland Innkeeper, Alamo Inn B&BEdit your Freelists account settings for TEXBIRDS at
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Interesting post on naming hot spots on e-bird. I support the status quo
which was established for good reason.
Texas is our largest birding state and doubtless has the largest number of
birding hot spots of any state and growing. It makes sense to keep the city
name or to use a regional code in front of all hot spot names. Texas is
different from other states and e-bird needs its rules to be flexible to take
our size into account. We have hundreds of thousands of visiting birders from
out of state and from out of North America who are increasingly using e-bird
to locate birds when they are here. They plan their trips by region.
Removing all city or regional identifiers in Texas would be analagous to
removing all state names for the United States and mixing up all US hot spots
into one pot. I doubt that anyone would recommend doing that.
Thank you.
Keith Hackland, Alamo, TX
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Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2016 09:41:20 -0800
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Subject: [texbirds] Texas Ebird Hotspot Names Protocol Change Feedback Sought
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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