Date: 7/8/25 6:36 pm From: Eric Mueller <ericmueller1912...> Subject: Re: [MASSBIRD] Update to New England Shorebird Guide
Hi all,
Many thanks to Soheil and all of the other folks who created this great
shorebird guide, and to Bird Observer for making it available to everyone!
For those of us who aren't iPhone users (gasp!) and instead use the Chrome
browser on our Android smartphones, there's also a simple way to add the
website as an icon on your phone. Just click on the
https://www.birdobserver.org/Better-Birding/New-England-Shorebird-Guide URL,
and when that opens, click on the 3 vertical dots in the upper right corner
of your screen. When the small black window opens, click on the "Add to
Home Screen" function. That should add the Shorebird icon to your home
screen, and you can then move that icon wherever you want. Easy peasy!
Cheers,
Eric
Eric Mueller
Clinton MA
<ericmueller1912...>
On Tue, Jul 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM <sohzendeh...> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> New England Shorebird Guide, a photographic guide to our shorebirds freely
> available on the Bird Observer site, is now updated to cover 28 species of
> shorebirds:
>
> https://www.birdobserver.org/Better-Birding/New-England-Shorebird-Guide.
>
> Due to severe declines in the populations of most shorebird species over
> the
> past several decades, I think it is important that bird and nature-lovers
> become as familiar as possible with these birds and advocate for their
> conservation. Shorebirds are reputed to be difficult to identify. This may
> be true for some species, but it is also partly due to the fact that most
> shorebird species are highly migratory and travel long distances during the
> course of a year. Most are in our region for only a few weeks every year,
> so
> they are easy to miss and hard to learn to identify.
>
> By learning their habits and habitats, as well as their behavior, shapes,
> and plumages, most observers can identify 20-plus species-perhaps up to 30
> species of shorebird-in New England and adjoining states and provinces each
> year. To increase the fan base of appreciation for these birds, I created
> the visual guide to shorebirds of New England and Bird Observer is
> generously providing free access on its website.
>
> The guide is designed primarily as a visual aid that can be used in the
> field on your smart phone; it can also be installed on your tablet or
> computer. I have prepared a brief user manual for the guide:
>
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ONLvB-JpLTrmcvTtypE0klbo4nRGm0gw/view?usp=d > rive_link.
>
> I have also uploaded instructions for installing an icon on your iPhone
> that
> directly accesses the app:
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVpWGWzwt4RXGGGULi7JVxfZlJ5e14WZ/view.
>
> I hope you find this guide useful for finding and identifying shorebirds in
> our region. It is also important that you communicate to me the
> shortcomings, errors, and inconsistencies of the guide so that I can
> improve
> future versions. You can reach me at <sohzendeh...>
>
> New England Shorebird Guide content was created by Soheil Zendeh. Marsha
> Salett of Bird Observer was the editor. Eric Swanzey, web manager for Bird
> Observer and other Massachusetts birding sites, created the web app.
> Instructions for installing the guide icon on your iPhone were provided by
> Jay Dia. The photos in the guide were contributed by many generous
> photographers.
>
> July, August and September are peak migration period for most shorebirds.
> Enjoy them right now.
>
> Soheil Zendeh
> Littleton, MA 01460
>
>
