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?

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Lessons Learned from this hurricane/birding experience

If anybody would like to start a discussion of what we have LEARNED as birders/naturalists from this Hurricane Irene experience we will be glad to host that discussion here, starting with anybody's proposed list of lessons-learned.

I will start with the #1 lesson I learned (and it goes beyond birding)... to get an electricity generator in my house, so we are really prepared for the next storm which shuts down our electricity for a day or maybe a week!

The next lesson might be that the "best" birds are reported during (and the hours right after) the teeth of the storm! Or maybe that is too much of a generalization.

Feel free to email me at robben99@gmail.com or leave a comment "below" this post (you probably have to first click on this post so it is the only post visible to you).  This discussion will start slowly, since I will not have much internet access this week, and I cant really get into the discussion until I do have electricity restored.
Thanks,  Tom
Posted by Tom at 3:20 PM

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