Earlier this year Cedar Stanistreet worked with a few other birders to put together a VT rare bird alert and chat system. The aim was to give VT birders a centralized platform for rare bird reporting across the State, with channels for each area. Building on that there are also chat channels, whereby interesting sightings that are not necessarily rare, or other information of use to other birders can be disseminated. And since other surrounding areas, (NY, MA, QC, etc) have all started to unify around Statewide Discord servers, this will allow birders to have one App with all the RBAs they are part of. Discord is freely available for both Android and iPhone.
I’m also happy to answer any questions about it directly. Obviously this will not replace this VTBIRDS group, but will hopefully allow birders interested in timely updates on rare or uncommon birds the ability to use the same platform as neighbouring States.
Many thanks,
Brent
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