Colorado Field Ornithologists is pleased to announce that the newly updated Colorado County Birding website is now live at: http://coloradocountybirding.org/
There have been plenty of upgrades and many great new features have been added.
eBird Hotspots are now included under most county sites and will continue to be added as they become available to us. BirdTrax is available on every county and hotspot site page. On these pages, using easy to find links, you can easily connect to eBird Seasonal Charts and to a list of Colorado Bird Record Committee accepted reports for any county or hotspot site.
Take a look at Boulder County. It is a good example with plenty of hotspots plus a chance to check out BirdTrax: http://cobirds.org/ByCounty.aspx?CountyID=7
One of the newest features is the ability to create and print your own checklist for any site. These checklists are stored on the County Birding website and available for everyone to use: http://cobirds.org/CreateChecklist.aspx
Notice a bird missing from the official county checklist? Request a species addition using the form available here: http://cobirds.org/RequestSpeciesAddition.aspx
Don't have the time to be an editor but want to suggest a site? Go to: http://cobirds.org/SuggestASite.aspx and let us know about it.
And one of the most important new features is that the County Birding website has been designed to render well on a Smartphone or iPad to be more useful in the field. I would encourage you to try it on your phone or iPad while out birding!
Take a look through the site and let us know what you think. See a problem? On every page there is a link to contact the editor with corrections and suggestions and we encourage you to use it.
We are also looking for folks that would be interested in becoming county editors for the Colorado County Birding website. This is an ongoing commitment and involves updating county and site information. If you have a good knowledge of some (or even one!) Colorado counties and want to help share that information, please let me know and we can get you signed up. There are plenty of counties left to edit!
Thanks and enjoy the new site.
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Rachel Hopper
Ft. Collins, CO
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