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, September 4, 2011

Summaries of "Irene's birds"

While I am off researching the listserv archives of all the Atlantic coastal states (to see if my aggregation & reporting process can be automated), several nice summaries of probable Hurricane Irene birds have been published, including...
1) the NEW YORK summary copied in this blog (Hurricane Irene 2011 (and its birds): New York State summary of Hurricane Irene birds),
2) Marshall Iliff's comprehensive EAST COAST summary (Hurricane Irene 2011 (and its birds): Summary of Hurricane Irene's Birds), and now a
3) CONNECTICUT summary by James Purcell, using the CTbirds posts.... Thank you James!....

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"Subject: Hurricane Irene birds
From: eyeflight16 AT optonline.net
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2011 14:47:53 +0000 (GMT)
I was bored this morning so I thought I would put together a list of all the
species and numbers of birds that we got from Hurricane Irene. I must say that
the list is quite impressive. However, do keep in mind this list isn't entirely
accurate. First of all, I only used reports from CT birds so I could be missing
some birds, and I apologize to anyone if I missed your birds. Second, although
I tried as hard as possible to avoid this, there could be some repeats of birds
seen here. (Example: a Sooty Tern seen at Griswold Point flying west could be
the same Sooty Tern seen flying west at Stratford Point), but I tried to use
logic to get rid of these repeated birds. Also, I know that all of these birds
may not have actually been blown in by the hurricane, such as the Lark Sparrow.
Nonetheless, here are all the rarities from this past week.�

1 White Ibis
89 Black Terns
66 Sooty Terns
1 Long-tailed Jaeger
2 Band-rumped Storm-Petrels
189 Red-necked Phalaropes
5 Leach's Storm-Petrels
11 Royal Terns
8 Caspian Terns
7 Wilson's Storm-Petrels
3 Red Phalaropes
1 Black-necked Stilt
6 Hudsonian Godwits
3 Brown Pelicans
1 Bridled Tern
4 Marbled Godwits
3 Parasitic Jaegers
1 Long-billed Dowitcher
1 Great Shearwater
1 Manx Shearwater
1 American Avocet
1 American White Pelican
1 Gull-billed Tern
1 Lark Sparrow

Wow! What a week for CT birding!�

James Purcell
Fairfield"
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