Thanks, Carol. I'm aware that there are filters you can use on ebird for
notifications of sightings of rarities, but I've never managed to set them
up in a way that doesn't either miss things or spam me with everything.
I'll give the app a try and see if I can curate it any better.
Louise Rutter
Kirkland
On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM Carol Riddell via Tweeters <
tweeters at u.washington.edu> wrote:
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Hi Louise and Tweets,
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Our own local Randy Robinson developed apps to cull rare bird information
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from eBird. The Washington Dashboard is of greatest use to local birders,
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but he also has versions for the World and for the US & Canada.
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Birddash.net will get you there. Users usually refer to them as birders
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dashboards.
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The Washington Dashboard allows you to set the time period from one to
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thirty days. You can look at all of the state or limit it to the county of
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your choice. The sightings are listed in chronological order from most
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recent to oldest. With each sighting, you can access the location and the
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eBird checklist so you can see any photos, listen to a recording if there
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is one, or read the description of field marks. If the rare bird has not
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yet been reviewed, there will be an X at the front. No X means eBird has
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reviewed and confirmed the sighting. If the sighting disappears, it means
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it was reviewed and not confirmed for eBird's public data.
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The Washington Dashboard is a great resource. While I continue to support
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Tweeters as a resource for rare birds, the Dashboard will get you
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information more quickly from birders who use eBird.
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Carol Riddell
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Edmonds, WA
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