Date: 4/26/24 7:43 pm From: Lucy & Bob Email via groups.io <RobertADuncan...> Subject: [ALbirds] BirdingApp.com
Birders,I emailed Tim Lenz who created BirdingApp and suggested he read the Albirds discussion of setting up one or more chats in Alabama. He responded to me below, and I'm forwarding it to our listserv. This might be what we want.Lucy
----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Tim Lenz <tclenz...>To:Â Lucy and Bob Duncan <robertaduncan...>Sent: Friday, April 26, 2024 at 08:59:42 PM CDTSubject: Re: BirdingApp.com
Hi Lucy,
Thank you so much for forwarding this to me, as BirdingApp aims to solve exactly this problem! I've read through all of the posts on the listserv, and this is how I would respond:
The main idea of BirdingApp is to simplify and encourage local conversation among birders in the field. There's no statewide chat per se, but anywhere you go in Alabama (or elsewhere), you can chat with other birders through the geospatial "Nearby Birders" chat, which has a default radius of 30km (max 75km). This eliminates the need to set up and maintain regional chats as well as the confusion on how to join them, while being more accommodating to traveling birders who are visiting Alabama. If you find a rarity, you can post it and send a notification either locally or statewide to everyone with the app. If others do not have the app, the post can also be shared externally with a link, for example https://birdingapp.com/app/post/view/POST186404/ Rarities from eBird are automatically pushed as app notifications to those interested. There are many other features as well, which I invite you all to check out at https://birdingapp.com and in the App Store description.
If you have any other questions please let me know and I'd be happy to help.
Tim
On Fri, Apr 26, 2024, 1:49 PM Lucy and Bob Duncan <robertaduncan...> wrote:
A discussion just broke out on ALbirds (listserv) with an inquiry if there were a chat for Alabama Birds, not the listserv and not email. I responded to ALbirds that there is a new chat forum called BirdingApp.com . I told the group that I'd not used it yet. I mentioned BirdingApp to the group.Can you jump in to explain how it can be used for a geographic area, or multiple areas, in Alabama? Lucy
