[TN-Bird] TBRC website updates

  • From: K Dean EDWARDS <kde@xxxxxxx>
  • To: Tennessee Birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, BRCF-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:10:32 -0500 (EST)

As announced at the TOS Fall Meeting earlier this month, a significant
update to the Tennessee Bird Records Committee website is now online.
A special thanks goes out to TOS webmaster Chuck Nicholson.  The
TBRC website can be reached from the TOS website (www.tnbirds.org)
or to link there directly...

http://www.tnbirds.org/TRBC/index.html

The new TBRC website includes the following:

About the TBRC
A brief history of the TBRC, the committee by-laws, and a list
of all members past and present.  The membership list will eventually
be put into a timeline format detailing who was serving on the
committee at any time.  Please let me know of any corrections or
omissions.

Official List of the Birds of Tennessee
Newly updated through 2007 TBRC actions and with fully revised status
codes and breeding status.  The updated list contains 406 species of
which 182 are known to have bred in Tennessee (i.e., documented to
meet "confirmed breeder" status as defined in "Atlas of the Breeding
Birds of Tennessee").  There is also a new Review List of 131 species
for which the TBRC requests documentation when observed in the state.
Everyone is encouraged to refer to the Review List and to report
sightings of those species to the TBRC and regional season report
editors for The Migrant and North American Birds.

TBRC Records Archive -- In development
This is the newest addition and the one I'm most excited about.
When completed, this will serve as an online archives of all
documentation of bird reports reviewed by the TBRC.  A few examples
are online now with more to be added as time permits.  Each species
will have a separate page with range map, status, and a list of
all accepted records and rejected reports reviewed by the TBRC
with links to the reports, photos, and other documentation submitted
to the TBRC and articles published in The Migrant.  This list will
only include observations reported to and reviewed by the TBRC.

Documenting Rare Birds in Tennessee
Rare Bird Report forms in various formats (with online submission
hopefully coming in the future) and instructions on how to document
rarities and fill out the report forms.  Currently the instructions
link to a nice 1987 article in The Migrant written by Stephen Stedman
and John Robinson which provides excellent recommendations for
documenting birds including filling out the TBRC report form (which
is largely the same today as the one described in the article).

Committee Actions and Reports
Links to all Committee reports published in The Migrant over the
years.


The TBRC invites everyone to check out the new website and, as
always, encourages everyone to carefully document sightings of
rare species and submit your observations to the TBRC and regional
editors of the season reports in The Migrant and Norht American
Birds.


Dean Edwards
Secretary, Tennessee Bird Records Committee


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