Date: 4/30/25 4:04 am From: LynnC <lynncomito...> Subject: [ia-bird] Re: Not a sighting: a (maybe) better eBird RBA explorer for Iowa
I tried your web app this morning and love it! I live in Story County and
tried filtering by Story County. The layout of the results is super nice! I
appreciate your sharing it with the rest of us who don’t have your tech
skills.
Best regards,
-Lynn Comito
On Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 6:15:15 AM UTC-5 <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
>
