Date: 4/29/25 1:45 pm From: Fawn Bowden <fawnda10...> Subject: Re: [ia-bird] Not a sighting: a (maybe) better eBird RBA explorer for Iowa
Very cool, love it- thank you!
Fawn in Riverside
On Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 8:50:25 AM UTC-5 danasiefer wrote:
> Kevin,
>
> I have no idea how you made that, but that's very cool. I'm always
> opening eBird and doing a species map search and filtering for 2025. That
> takes a while and your site is much quicker. Often when I think I see
> something considered rare, I like to check eBird to see if the bird has
> been reported in IA lately. For instance, I saw a snowy egret this morning
> and can see it's been reported in 3 counties in the last 7 days.
>
> Thanks, I will bookmark it and use it a lot.
>
> Dana
> Storm Lake
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2025, 6:15 AM Kevin Ripka <kevr......> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> TL;DR - I made an unrefined web app for exploring the eBird Iowa RBA at
>> https://birds.kevinripka.com/iowa-rba/.
>>
>> This year was the first I signed up for the full Iowa eBird Rare Bird
>> Alert as I was curious what was around the state. But, even though I've now
>> lived in Iowa City for about a decade, I quickly realized I don't know
>> where any counties are besides Johnson and Linn. So I decided to make
>> myself a little web app to show me where these rare bird alerts were taking
>> place.
>>
>> The app isn't super refined, but good enough for now. If you have issues,
>> just click the reset button top right. It only shows the last 7 days of
>> rare bird alerts. I didn't put any time into making sure it looked great on
>> your phone. Nor did I try to integrate taxonomic order as I only wanted to
>> spend a night on this while the weather was bad and I couldn't go out
>> birding.
>>
>> Some features:
>>
>> - Click on a county to see only the RBAs for that county
>> - Click on a bird to see what counties it is being reported from
>> - Use the search to find a bird you're looking for. Click on the bird
>> as it comes up.
>> - You can sort the columns forward and backward by clicking on the
>> column headers, but I was too lazy to put little arrow icons there
>> - It does try to filter out duplicates from the same email, but if a
>> bird was reported multiple different times at the same place, it will
>> appear on the list multiple times
>>
>> Eventually I plan on volunteering some time to the IOU website. I still
>> have to work on that bird blind and platform thing I posted about last
>> week. Maybe this can wind up living there at some point as well.
>>
>> yours,
>> Kevin Ripka
>>
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