Hi everyone,

The new IdahoBirds.net web site is live. It takes a while for all the
servers on the Internet to point to the right place, so some people
might still get the old site. If that happens just wait. It will
eventually switch for you.

Here are a few things we want everyone to know.

The photos you contributed are on the Species Latilong pages within the
Distribution section. I was super impressed with how many people put
their time into finding the images we needed, and also with the quality.
We have a good group of bird photographers in Idaho! In some cases there
were multiple great photos to choose from, and which ones got posted
depended on things like better photo, taken in Idaho, interesting, or
spreading it out among the photographers. Darren Clark has photos of
more than half of the species, so we initially started there to get as
many filled in as possible. That makes him a bit over-represented
though:-) We don’t intend these to be static, and it would be nice to
see them rotated. Lets leave them for a while to give people a chance to
see all of them, and then we’ll gradually start rotating. I highly
recommend clicking on the images to see larger versions. Some are simply
the best any Idaho birder could find or documentary photos of rare birds
in the state, but a lot of them a really good and worth taking a closer
look at.

We have plans to expand the site, especially in the Destinations area.
Will post more on that later.

Darren made new versions of the latilong maps. He is working with
Shirley Sturts to get them updated and current with the records, but it
will be a few weeks before that is complete. People can submit new
latilong changes now, but it may be better to wait until Darren is done
and he lets everyone know.

IBLE posts to the new site. We have not been able to do that (so far)
with Inland-NW but Charles Swift is working on it. In the mean time,
emails that are sent to IBLE will post, so if you are a member of both
you can cc to IBLE and it will appear on the web site.

Please let me know if you see anything that doesn’t seem to work right-
bad links, typos, missing records, etc. One minor thing you can ignore
is the little caution sign by the url about the site not being
completely secure on some pages. That’s coming from the BirdTrax gadget
that shows eBird sightings. Not to worry- just don’t enter your credit
card or anything:-)

Lisa

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Cliff and Lisa Weisse
Island Park, Idaho
cliffandlisa@octobersetters.com