[Tweeters] Does E-bird have a top-100 problem? (Ed Newbold)

[Karen Wosilait]

Jim, eBird can do what you’d like, produce a bar chart for a county for a range of years (or a part of the year). 

On the Explore page, type (for example) your county of interest. It will default to last seen sightings, but on the left, then choose “bar charts.”  

If you want a shorter time interval, there’s a “change date” option. 

Karen Wosilait (she/her)
Seattle, WA
karen.w.mobile at gmail.com


> On Sep 24, 2023, at 12:51 PM, jimbetz at jimbetz.com wrote:

> 

> Ed,

> 

>  I share your disappointment with eBird.  It is a great tool for

> recording what you saw/heard - and for keeping personal records

> over time.  Beyond that there are many things it does not do

> well ... such as any "research".  Try and get eBird to tell you

> when a particular species is likely to be in your area for example.

>  Big picture research is "fairly good" but as soon as you want to

> get down to questions such as "what's been seen recently, and

> where, in my "county"? ... it leaves a lot to be desired.

> 

>  Yes, I know how to use eBird to get county level info - but

> "last seen" or "high count" aren't what I need.  I'd like to see a

> graph of the presence of a species over the past few years for a

> particular date range ... for instance.

> 

>  I'm not into "competitive birding" - at any level (don't even

> keep a life list) so I can't say if the Top-100 list is useful -

> or not.

>                                             - Jim in Burlington

> 

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