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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>If Jane's three great alternatives are not enough...<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On the homepage scroll to Species Maps. Enter your species. The search bar defaults to Year-round, All years, but you can limit to Jun/Jul and set a period of your choosing. For varied thrush, I started with Past 10 Years but then entered start and end dates of 2024-2024. That gave a reasonable set of pins to start looking at checklists. One eBirder expressed surprise at seeing the species. Some corroborated their findings. There's an anonymous report of a juvenile in Seattle in early June. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Keep digging!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Scott Richardson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Tweeters <tweeters-bounces@mailman11.u.washington.edu> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jane Hadley via Tweeters<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, January 11, 2025 16:53 PM<br><b>To:</b> Tweeters, Dear <tweeters@u.washington.edu><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Tweeters] Robins and thrush<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"KacstOne",serif'>Hello Tweetsters - Bob O'Brien would like to find a convenient data source regarding reports (or lack thereof) of Varied Thrushes in the Seattle area during breeding season. The Breeding Bird Atlas program gathered this kind of data and is now available on the WOS website at <a href="https://wos.org/documents/soundtosage/">https://wos.org/documents/soundtosage/</a> (This atlas website should be viewed on a tablet, laptop or desktop computer rather than on a phone.)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"KacstOne",serif'>The King County breeding bird atlas data was collected between 1987 and 2000, but it can function as a kind of baseline to compare with today. What it shows is that surveyors found no evidence of breeding for Varied Thrush in Seattle during those years. Varied thrushes were breeding in the mountains. It is the pattern that Bob has observed at his home southeast of Portland for the last 50 years. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"KacstOne",serif'>I found three methods for getting eBird information about the presence of Varied Thrushes during breeding season in Seattle. (The third method works only in a very special situation.)<br> <br> Method One: Bar Charts based on sightings of a selected species at a specified hotspot during specified months<br> <br> 1. Go to <a href="https://ebird.org/GuideMe?cmd=changeLocation">https://ebird.org/GuideMe?cmd=changeLocation</a><br> 2. Under "Select a region," select United States and then Washington<br> 3. Under "Then select a subregion," click on "Hotspots in Washington."<br> 4. Hit the "Continue" button at the bottom of the page<br> 5. The hotspots are listed in alphabetical order. Look for the three Discovery Park hotspots and click on the checkboxes for them. (Discovery Park has the most sightings in Seattle for Varied Thrush.)<br> 6. Go to the bottom of the page and hit the "Continue" button<br> 7. On the Bird Observations page, click on the silver "Change Date" button at the top of the page.<br> 8. On the page that comes up, choose "Breeding Season (June-July)"<br> 9. Set the "Start" in the "range of years" to a later date than 1900 -- say "2000."<br> 9. Hit the "Continue" button.<br> 10. This page shows bar charts for all species seen at the three Discovery Park hotspots during the months of June and July from 2000 to present. Varied Thrush is not shown in the list of 150+ species. (There may be a threshhold of at least 5 sightings, below which the species is not shown.) This suggests that Varied Thrush, based on eBird data, does not breed in Seattle.<br><br><br>Method Two: Visual overview of abundance<br><br>This provides just a visual overview of Varied Thrush abundance in Seattle and beyond during breeding season:<br><br>1. Go to the Status and Trends pages at<br><a href="https://science.ebird.org/en/status-and-trends">https://science.ebird.org/en/status-and-trends</a><br><br>2. Type in Varied Thrush to the species box.<br><br>3. When the map appears, go to the sidebar on the right side of the page and toggle the "Breeding Season" button to activate it.<br><br>4. Under the Regional Stats section, set the country to US and subregion to Washington. You then will have a visual representation on a map of Varied Thrush abundance during breeding season. It does not show any abundance in Seattle and shows lots of abundance in the mountains.<br><br><br>Method Three: Sightings data for a species at hotspots for specified months<br><br>This method works only if you have never entered a Varied Thrush for Washington State on an eBird report. The good thing about this method is that, if you meet this unusual condition, it will show you every report of Varied Thrush during the specified months at whatever place you are interested in. <br><br>1. Go to <a href="https://ebird.org/targets">https://ebird.org/targets</a><br>2. Enter "Washington" in the Region box and select "Washington, United States"<br>3. Under "Time of Year" select "Custom" by clicking on it.<br>4. Set the Beginning month to June and the Ending month to July<br>5. Click on the Green "Show target species" button<br>6. In the list that appears, scroll down to Varied Thrush. On the right side of that line, click on the blue "Map"<br>7. In the map that shows up, zoom WAY in to the Seattle area until the purple disappears and the red and blue tear drop markers show up on the map. Each one of these markers is a spot where Varied Thrush has been seen during the months specified (June-July).<br>8. Click on a marker and it will show you all persons who saw the thrush at that spot in June or July and the dates of the sightings. Discovery Park shows only 6-7 sightings in June and none in July during "all years." </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"KacstOne",serif'>Jane Hadley</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"KacstOne",serif'>Seattle, Washington</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"KacstOne",serif'><a href="mailto:hadleyj1725@gmail.com">hadleyj1725@gmail.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>