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Possible Projects o: Write a yearly report on the birds that were
reviewed by the committee:
- The last report (the 17th UBRC Report) was publish in Aug 2009 and
included 28 or the 37 records for 2008 and 7 of the 31 records for 2009 so
we probably need a report to get the rest of the records for 2008 and 2009
then we could start to publish reports on our web pages for each year.
(2010 had 49 records -- 2011 has 36 so far)
Link to UBRC
Reports
Link to UBRC
Archives
Review the Bylaws and see if there need to be
changes:
- Lu already did this, but there may be other things that need to be
changed -- the secretary or any member of the committee could make
proposals anytime they want..
Publish a new official UBRC checklist for the
state:
- Although I've kept the website versions up-to-date pretty well,
we could review the codes etc., and publish a paper version which can be
distributed through state and federal agencies and others that might
contribute to the project. (the last one was published in 2004)
Communications with birders about Review Species
How can we get people to submit sight records?:
Although we've gotten on average at least twice as many record submission
in the last 10 years than the previous ten years, there are a lot of
Review Species sightings that go un-reviewed and so are left out of the
official list of reveiw speices sightings for Utah (we do have them on the
"Comprehensive List"). So it might be good to get a system going to
remind people to submit records. On our "Hotline Highlights" reports
from sighting reported on the birdnet and BirdTalk we list the Review
Species listing at the top with links to the county where they were seen,
so it's easy to see those sighting and who reported them.
Here's a link:
We could send out a periodic report to the
BirdTalk of the interesting or significant sight records that have been
reviewed by the committee?:
I think it would be good to communicate with the birders of Utah more
frequently so they will be reminded of the workings of the committee which
might result in more sight records submissions.
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