Description

eBirds NYC is primarily for reporting wild bird sightings within NYC and the surrounding areas, defined deliberately vaguely - it might include places like Brigantine and Cape May in migration, the Adirondacks and Catskills during winter etc. Basically anywhere that's a reasonable day-trip for NYC-based birders that has interesting birds.

Topics that are appropriate for this list:

• Bird sightings from the NYC area
• Rare/novel bird sightings from further afield
• Meeting/trip announcements of a birding nature (e.g. Audubon, Linnaean)
• Identification issues related to local sightings
(and other subjects along these lines)

TO POST A MESSAGE TO THE LIST: email the message to ebirdsnyc@yahoogroups.com. Emailing it to me won't always get it posted, although you can try. If you're logged in to the same Yahoo ID that you subscribed to, you can also use the "Post" link on the sidebar to post.

It's worth indicating if a spotting scope is useful/necessary to view the birds - not everyone is familiar with all locations (for coastal locations, Jamaica Bay etc assume a scope is very useful).

Advertising, political discussions, spam/virus alerts etc are not appropriate. Raptor nest and owl roost locations should not be reported. I made a specific exception for the Central Park Boreal Owl but I don't report other owl roost sites.

See also: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/btblue (Metro Birding Briefs) for reports of rare birds in the NYC area.

Yahoo's software is not without it's issues - if it fails to subscribe you try one or more other methods. You won't always see the messages immediately if you are a new member. If all else fails a temporary stop-gap is that the list archives are world-readable via the web. AOL members: look at http://www.darsys.com/panth/aol.html for a description of AOL-related problems. Feel free to email me with issues.

-Phil Jeffrey, NYC (ebirdsnyc-owner@yahoogroups.com)