Date: 2/13/26 3:56 pm From: Ken Burton via groups.io <shrikethree...> Subject: Re: [CALBIRDS] Using eBird to plan a trip
Tom (et al.),
While I fully agree that there are many valid reasons not to be on Facebook
and that the "Balkanization" you describe is lamentable, the official
description of CALBIRDS is "A forum for the discussion of rare birds found
within California." I think you will agree that Chuck's post does not meet
that criterion. I'm not a CALBIRDS moderator, but I am a subscriber, and I
think opening the group up to posts on how to use eBird is a very slippery
slope.
Ken
On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 3:40 PM T.G. Miko <tgmiko...> wrote:
> Ken,
> I wholeheartedly disagree:
> 1. Lots of people are not on Facebook for various reasons. Some of them
> ideological.
> 2. This is another symptom of the extreme balkanization of bird
> communications on the internet. This burger who lives in another state does
> not have the ability to reach out and join various groups on WhatsApp or
> Discord. The only way you can join those groups is first you have to find
> out what the heck the name of the group is, and then you have to find
> somebody who's willing to let you join the group, and that assumes that
> you're able to find somebody to reach out to and ask them to let you know.
> I can tell you stories of groups one County over that wouldn't let people
> in my County join their group. How do you think they're going to treat
> somebody from another state?
>
> Tom Miko
> Claremont 91711
> 909.241.3300
> "We lose a rifle and get punished. They lose a war and get promoted."--Ben
> Edwards
>
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2026, 3:02 PM Ken Burton via groups.io <shrikethree=
> <gmail.com...> wrote:
>
>> I think this is a question for the eBird community discussion group on
>> Facebook, not CALBIRDS.
>>
>> Ken Burton
>> McKinleyville
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 2:07 PM chuck schussman via groups.io
>> <cschussman...> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, I am planning a trip to Omaha, Nebraska. Can eBird be used to
>>> identify the best places in or around Omaha to find a particular species? I
>>> am hoping there is another way to do this other than just clicking on all
>>> the flags on the range map... I am imagining that what I want is some way
>>> to display a list of all of the sightings of a particular species in a
>>> particular county, sorted by location and then by date. Is something like
>>> that possible? How do you all use eBird to plan a birding trip?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Chuck Schussman
>>> Tustin, California
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
