Date: 6/14/26 2:57 pm From: Tom Benedict via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Some new birding tools
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I’m only speaking for myself, but as a “non-Twitcher” I don’t see this as good news. It's inevitable that this kind of decision support tool has become available, but I really don’t think we should be encouraging more chasing. We don’t need more ways to incent more people to chase birds all over the countryside. The photos that people post are almost always better than the image I would get to see in person with bionic or scope, so I’m more than satisfied staying home and enjoying the experience vicariously.
But I’m not a WOS member, so maybe I should just get over it.
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Yes, I am a stick-in-the-mud. ;)
Tom Benedict
Seahurst, WA
> On Jun 9, 2026, at 12:19, Jane Hadley via Tweeters <tweeters...> wrote:
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> Dear Tweetsters - I wanted to alert you to a couple new additions to the WOS website (wos.org <http://wos.org/>) that might be of interest.
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> First former WOS board member and officer Scott Ray has created a free web app that should be of interest to those who chase rarities.
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> Here's how Scott describes it:
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>> "Birders who chase rarities all know the question: If I drive there today, will the bird still be there? ....
>> Chase Report is a free, mobile-friendly, web-based rare bird dashboard that uses current eBird notable sightings and organizes them into a practical “chaseability” view. It requires no account, login, or installation. Open the site in a browser and you can immediately see which rare birds appear most likely to still be present, which are uncertain, and which are probably gone."
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