Date: 10/6/26 12:19 pm From: Harry LeGrand (via carolinabirds Mailing List) <carolinabirds...> Subject: County Maps on the Birds of North Carolina website -- update
Folks,
About 1-2 weeks ago, I posted that Michael Fogleman had generated almost all of the roughly 500 North Carolina species maps (of last year of occurrence in each county) from eBird, sent them to several of us, and Tom Howard (Birds of NC webmaster) already posted them. But, we discovered that 9 species had no maps. Nathan Tarr and I took up the ball from here; I created an Excel file of the records that I could find from The Chat database and one or two other sources, and Nathan was able to generate county maps of 8 of them, as one species had no known date records. I suggested a few changes, Nathan re-did those, and Tom Howard just this morning has posted them. These 8 are: Passenger Pigeon, Lesser Nighthawk, Cypseloides sp. swift, Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Gyrfalcon, Pine Grosbeak, Long-eared Owl, and Black Rail. Carolina Parakeet has no state map.
On these eight, you will see different colors than from the dark blue to yellow counties on the eBird maps, and Nathan added the last known year in the counties. The other 490 maps DO show tiny red dots for each record, within the colored counties, but no last year showing.
We still hope to have identical format for the 500 species maps, but that may be difficult, unless the records in the Excel file that I have could be entered by some intrepid person into eBird, each as a separate eBird report -- very tricky, I expect. And lastly, please remember that these county maps of last-year-of-occurrence are currently NOT interactive and change whenever a species is reported in a county in a more recent year. They are static right now, and someone will need to re-generate these maps every X number of months.
Harry LeGrand author/editor, Birds of North Carolina website
PS -- I am currently adding some high count data for the species accounts. Michael Foglemen generated the top-10 all-time high counts for species in both NC and SC. Most of these 10 end up in just one of the three Provinces, meaning most waterfowl high counts are just for the Coastal Plain. But, at least that is a good start, and even though I am barely 40-50 species into this update, folks who want to know all time high counts can turn to the website. I will post to carolinabirds when I am done.
