OK, now we are - Birds of Southern California @ Murrieta
We try to limit our coverage to Temecula Valley,
but Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego are so close some birds won't stay in small areas. As of 2017 we show birds from all of Southern California - the birds made us do this.
Editor's note: We proudly promise to provide a picturized plethora and profusion of plumage. PoP and LOL.
______________________________________________________________________
Simple and effective, or SIMPLEFECT as we some times say, that is our idea of how
we should provide a pictorial view of Murrieta birds.
Site Content:
. HOME page contains an introduction. And fresh daily "Bird of the Day", "Spot of the Day", and "HIC of the day"
. The Gallery Show pages show off recent or special pictures.
. THE BIRDS pages contains our bird profiles. And our profiles are now packed with eBird power and bird sounds
. IN ORDER are menu paths to our Birds Profiles by birds Scientific Order
. This is the Simplefect page and it describes and defines this site and gateways bird indexes.
. A new feature is our "Birds Of" Slide Shows: a way to look at birds in a very local way, it uses HICs at you favorite locations
. The Birders page is for birders, birding, and check lists.
also, here in, we have About Us, Team, and Contact Us pages that help round out the site.
Basically we provide pictures, profiles and portals of our Pennigerous pals
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Site features:
HIC(Hotspot Illustrated Checklist), WIC(Weather Information Cast), SPOT(an eBird spotting), Lists(eBird checklist)
HICs, WICs, SPOTs, Lists are portals/links to other sites. Generally they are current, up to date.
Of SPOTs and Thumbnail SPOTs: SPOTs are links to eBird pages/pictures. Our first SPOTs presented eBird pages with 1 or more pictures on it. Then we found the individual SPOT (Macaulay Library bird sighting page).
And then we moved a thumbnail of the bird into the birds profile Gallery Show and link it to the Macaulay Library page.
We can identify these Thumbnail SPOTs by the caption of: Year, eBird-xxC. (xx being County) i.e. 2017 eBird-RC
and we'll keep some of the current SPOTs around for Multi-picture SPOTs.
HICs are eBird's Hotspot Illustrated Checklist. With HICs you get an "on the spot" view of birds that were seen at a local location.
Super View: best for seeing pictures: click on the any picture of the checklist and it will put you in the picture mode. Picture mode gives you the best rated picture of each bird "in a slide show" and information on where bird was seen.
But beware some of these pictures are bad they were submitted for identification, so not for good looks.
HICs are either on "HICS PARADE", or HICs of the Day on the home/front page.
New as of 01-14-2017: Alerts: we now provide links(portals) to current eBird alerts for each county.
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Our main presentation feature is the "Gallery Show":
When you click on one of the small gallery pictures, you will open a larger picture in the gallery show mode.
_____________
Navigation features: We made an alphabetic family names list
which is our best research on finding all the birds you might see in our area.
The menu is also designed to let you surf categories of birds and select the bird family you are looking for.
We also have the Scientific Family Name Index so we can better relate to the experts. This has been portal-ed to experts
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Picture captions show picture detail information. So when you hover over a picture it will show location, date and provider.
Most pictures are taken by me and do not show provider name.
Locations are abbreviated, so see "COMMON ABBREVIATIONS" as needed.
__________________________
We try to provide expert information indirectly by providing navigation buttons(portals) to expert sites.
Audubon Society is one of those sites but it is so beautiful that it some times takes a bit of time to load.
There are other expert sites and we find The Cornell Lab of Ornithology aka ALLABOUTBIRDS,
to be one of the best and one of our favorites. Plus more great site named just below.
_________________________________________________
Credits and Thanks to
Birds of the World - An online Bird Book - carolinabirds.com aka Carolina Birds
Wiki Commons and Flicker -shared bird pictures
Cornell Lab of Ornithology - allaboutbirds.com
Audubon - and all it's chapters and members
CCNAB -Birds-of-north-america.net aka BOFNA
American Bird Conservancy - abcbirds
WhatBird - Identify birds of North America
eBird - Global tools for Birders, Critical data for Science, Record the birds you see
UCI - Birds of Orange County
__________________________
we found bird measurements information on a site that seems to have "averaged data" so we are going to use
that body length-wingspan data on each bird - we want to show at quick glance the birds size.
____________________________________________________
upgrade notes -- Birds of Southern California in or around Murrieta
we are basically done with upgrades as of 02-05-2017 please enjoy the expanded vision
Expansion explanation: The bird of the day 01-20-2017 is the Painted Bunting rarely seen around here; But a group of people got to see one Sept. 2015 in Irvine and another Oct. 2016 in San Diego. So again you get to see it here with out going to Irvine or San Diego and it's one of the biggest reasons for our going the extra miles to the outskirts of our previous birding area.
Upgrade Note: some birds will take extra effort to see; like Verdins live in deserts or Boobys stay near salt water or Pinyon Jays are in the mountains
or Swainson's Hawk fly by in the spring migration. If you take a long day trip, in the spring, to the Salton Sea you may see all four;
so we will, in the profile pages, identify, with following symbols, any birds that are other than valley resident birds
as seen at(@) area: coast @== deserts @__ mountains @^^ and migrations @>>
and any birds that are in Southern California but stay north of Riverside and Orange counties as: @""
__________________________
Here is our minor disclaimer:
We focus on and prefer to be limited to Birds with in 20 miles of Murrieta. Now all of Southern California.
Our way of keeping it simple and effective. Oops, over time this area expanded but we indicate these outskirts birds with a (seen at) @ symbol, like @^^ for mountain birds
See "our area" to see a map of our basic coverage area.
We try to limit our coverage to Temecula Valley,
but Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego are so close some birds won't stay in small areas. As of 2017 we show birds from all of Southern California - the birds made us do this.
Editor's note: We proudly promise to provide a picturized plethora and profusion of plumage. PoP and LOL.
______________________________________________________________________
Simple and effective, or SIMPLEFECT as we some times say, that is our idea of how
we should provide a pictorial view of Murrieta birds.
Site Content:
. HOME page contains an introduction. And fresh daily "Bird of the Day", "Spot of the Day", and "HIC of the day"
. The Gallery Show pages show off recent or special pictures.
. THE BIRDS pages contains our bird profiles. And our profiles are now packed with eBird power and bird sounds
. IN ORDER are menu paths to our Birds Profiles by birds Scientific Order
. This is the Simplefect page and it describes and defines this site and gateways bird indexes.
. A new feature is our "Birds Of" Slide Shows: a way to look at birds in a very local way, it uses HICs at you favorite locations
. The Birders page is for birders, birding, and check lists.
also, here in, we have About Us, Team, and Contact Us pages that help round out the site.
Basically we provide pictures, profiles and portals of our Pennigerous pals
_______________________________________________
Site features:
HIC(Hotspot Illustrated Checklist), WIC(Weather Information Cast), SPOT(an eBird spotting), Lists(eBird checklist)
HICs, WICs, SPOTs, Lists are portals/links to other sites. Generally they are current, up to date.
Of SPOTs and Thumbnail SPOTs: SPOTs are links to eBird pages/pictures. Our first SPOTs presented eBird pages with 1 or more pictures on it. Then we found the individual SPOT (Macaulay Library bird sighting page).
And then we moved a thumbnail of the bird into the birds profile Gallery Show and link it to the Macaulay Library page.
We can identify these Thumbnail SPOTs by the caption of: Year, eBird-xxC. (xx being County) i.e. 2017 eBird-RC
and we'll keep some of the current SPOTs around for Multi-picture SPOTs.
HICs are eBird's Hotspot Illustrated Checklist. With HICs you get an "on the spot" view of birds that were seen at a local location.
Super View: best for seeing pictures: click on the any picture of the checklist and it will put you in the picture mode. Picture mode gives you the best rated picture of each bird "in a slide show" and information on where bird was seen.
But beware some of these pictures are bad they were submitted for identification, so not for good looks.
HICs are either on "HICS PARADE", or HICs of the Day on the home/front page.
New as of 01-14-2017: Alerts: we now provide links(portals) to current eBird alerts for each county.
_____________
Our main presentation feature is the "Gallery Show":
When you click on one of the small gallery pictures, you will open a larger picture in the gallery show mode.
_____________
Navigation features: We made an alphabetic family names list
which is our best research on finding all the birds you might see in our area.
The menu is also designed to let you surf categories of birds and select the bird family you are looking for.
We also have the Scientific Family Name Index so we can better relate to the experts. This has been portal-ed to experts
_________________________
Picture captions show picture detail information. So when you hover over a picture it will show location, date and provider.
Most pictures are taken by me and do not show provider name.
Locations are abbreviated, so see "COMMON ABBREVIATIONS" as needed.
__________________________
We try to provide expert information indirectly by providing navigation buttons(portals) to expert sites.
Audubon Society is one of those sites but it is so beautiful that it some times takes a bit of time to load.
There are other expert sites and we find The Cornell Lab of Ornithology aka ALLABOUTBIRDS,
to be one of the best and one of our favorites. Plus more great site named just below.
_________________________________________________
Credits and Thanks to
Birds of the World - An online Bird Book - carolinabirds.com aka Carolina Birds
Wiki Commons and Flicker -shared bird pictures
Cornell Lab of Ornithology - allaboutbirds.com
Audubon - and all it's chapters and members
CCNAB -Birds-of-north-america.net aka BOFNA
American Bird Conservancy - abcbirds
WhatBird - Identify birds of North America
eBird - Global tools for Birders, Critical data for Science, Record the birds you see
UCI - Birds of Orange County
__________________________
we found bird measurements information on a site that seems to have "averaged data" so we are going to use
that body length-wingspan data on each bird - we want to show at quick glance the birds size.
____________________________________________________
upgrade notes -- Birds of Southern California in or around Murrieta
we are basically done with upgrades as of 02-05-2017 please enjoy the expanded vision
Expansion explanation: The bird of the day 01-20-2017 is the Painted Bunting rarely seen around here; But a group of people got to see one Sept. 2015 in Irvine and another Oct. 2016 in San Diego. So again you get to see it here with out going to Irvine or San Diego and it's one of the biggest reasons for our going the extra miles to the outskirts of our previous birding area.
Upgrade Note: some birds will take extra effort to see; like Verdins live in deserts or Boobys stay near salt water or Pinyon Jays are in the mountains
or Swainson's Hawk fly by in the spring migration. If you take a long day trip, in the spring, to the Salton Sea you may see all four;
so we will, in the profile pages, identify, with following symbols, any birds that are other than valley resident birds
as seen at(@) area: coast @== deserts @__ mountains @^^ and migrations @>>
and any birds that are in Southern California but stay north of Riverside and Orange counties as: @""
__________________________
Here is our minor disclaimer:
We focus on and prefer to be limited to Birds with in 20 miles of Murrieta. Now all of Southern California.
Our way of keeping it simple and effective. Oops, over time this area expanded but we indicate these outskirts birds with a (seen at) @ symbol, like @^^ for mountain birds
See "our area" to see a map of our basic coverage area.
The Vision
This site is basically a picture book of Murrieta's Birds. We show the birds and provide button access to well known bird expert sites. We expanded to include almost all birds seen in Southern California and now provide portals to daily sightings.
We have simplified the vision -->"" we intend to provide a view of the PoP (Plethora of Plumage) that is in Southern California""
This site is basically a picture book of Murrieta's Birds. We show the birds and provide button access to well known bird expert sites. We expanded to include almost all birds seen in Southern California and now provide portals to daily sightings.
We have simplified the vision -->"" we intend to provide a view of the PoP (Plethora of Plumage) that is in Southern California""