Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!oliveb!pyramid!unify!grp From: grp@unify.uucp (Greg Pasquariello) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: Birding vs. birdwatching (was Re: Birding magazine question) Keywords: birding, birdwatching, Rare Bird Alert Message-ID: <30v9ziu@unify.uucp> Date: 5 Jan 90 17:40:35 GMT References: <9001031916.AA06453@jade.berkeley.edu> <3712@nmtsun.nmt.edu> <3713@nmtsun.nmt.edu> Reply-To: grp@unify.UUCP (Greg Pasquariello) Organization: Unify Corporation, Sacramento, CA, USA Lines: 31 In article <3713@nmtsun.nmt.edu> john@nmtsun.nmt.edu (John Shipman) writes: >I'd like to start a Rare Bird Alert, but I wouldn't know >how to go about it. Any suggestions? >-- >John Shipman/Zoological Data Processing/Socorro, New Mexico I guess the first thing you would need to do would be to advertise it; Birding would publish it, but you also need local interest and support. You probably do enough birding so that you could bootstrap it with reports from your trips. Hell, if there are more birds like the ground dove, I might even call from here! Secondly, you would need reliable tape equipment. I don't know what the "pros" use, but if the tape machine was down alot, you probably wouldn't get too many repeat callers. I HATE getting everlasting busy signals. Actually, when I look at it, it seems like it might be pretty easy to do! Good Luck. If you do it, please publish the number here. I've thought about starting a national bird alert BBS. One that was FREE. But I'm not sure that there are enuf birder's that are computer literate/in- terested. Also there are problems with connect time costs for long distance calls, gathering reports, etc. If I had a way a finding out if enough people were interested, I might do it. -greg -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greg Pasquariello (916) 920-9092 grp@unify.UUCP Unify Corporation ...!{csusac, pyramid}!unify!grp