eBird Australia enhancement: Explore a County, State, or Country | eBird

[Martin Butterfield <>]

As someone who has "issues" with rigid application of the administrative boundaries of States and territories I am far from excited about this.  I'm not saying its a bad thing just not on my priority list.

A far better avenue for eBird to extend to would be the polygan app developed by an individual observer some years ago.  This lets the observer define the area they are interested in by plotting the boundaries as a polygon in Goggle Earth and then downloading a checklist for that area.  Unfortunately it seems to access an old version of the eBird dataset so is getting gradually less useful.

Martin

Martin Butterfield

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On 29 October 2017 at 14:26, Ryu Callaway <> wrote:

Excellent update, thanks for letting us know David.
For those of you who get ebird rare (or needs) bird alerts, it means you can now get alerts for individual LGAs as well - previously, you couldn't get alerts for sightings just over the border without getting reports for the whole of NSW.
One thing I recently noticed is that the location pin beside each 'last seen' which you could hover over to see the location of the report on the regional summaries has disappeared, possibly when this improvement was implemented. Hopefully that can be fixed.

Ryu

--- David McDonald (personal) <> wrote:
> Hi, eBird Australia now shows Australian data by 'county', i.e. local government area: http://ebird.org/ebird/australia/places
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> An excellent enhancement, many thanks to those responsible.
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> The pedants among us may point out that, for NSW, the LGAs used are those that preceded the 2016 forced council amalgamations (John Barilaro: 'There will be no forced amalgamations') which I, as an opponent of them, find a delicious irony!
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