This site focuses on these questions


Sept 13: WHITE-TAILED TROPICBIRD found in CT on Aug 28th! Read this fascinating story at Greg's site....

SEPT 10: CURRENTLY WORKING WITH THE eBIRD TEAM TO GET ALL HURRICANE BIRDS INTO eBIRD. PLEASE ENTER YOUR STORM-BIRDS INTO eBIRD THIS WEEK, OR CONTACT ME (robben99@gmail.com) OR MARSHALL ILIFF TO ASSIST.

This Hurricane Irene blog was meant to be helpful for just ONE WEEK to provide REAL-TIME reporting of ALL Atlantic coast storm-birds DURING the "teeth" of the storm, but the storm's winds and flooding killed our electricity and this blog. Without electricity, water and internet for 102 hours prevented us reporting during the most exciting part of the hurricane and its birding aftermath.
Instead of trying to "catch-up" and reconstruct those 102 missing hours from the archived listserv reports, we will instead 1) summarize them, 2) learn what we can from this "experiment" in real-time-hurricane-bird-blogging, 3) request eBird data entry of all hurricane reports, and 4) get ready for the NEXT hurricane this year!

Therefore we will refocus on the latest current map of the NEXT hurricanes and their projected storm tracks.....
Tropical Storms and Hurricanes (and the wind speed probabilities map... Wind Speed Projections ) and prepare again to answer these questions....
What impacts will the next hurricane have on birds on the East Coast of the USA (plus the western Atlantic and maritime Canada)? And how will that be reflected on the twenty main internet bird lists covering that region?

Sunday, August 28, 2011

102 HOURS BLACKOUT BEGAN HERE

102 hour blackout of electricity, water, and internet began around 11am Sunday August 28 during the middle of Hurricane Irene smashing into NY and CT. This blog was crippled for 102 hours from Sunday onwards, and failed to deliver the ONE-WEEK of REAL-TIME reporting planned for. Truly very sorry. [this post was planted retro-actively back to this date and time].

NOTE that most of the links below are "broken" now and point to nothing useful!!!  Because they have "rolled-off" their listserv's landing-pages and into their archives (those that have archives). This is a main reason this blog was designed as a ONE-WEEK blog, whose primary purpose was real-time communication during the hurricane, not after it.

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