BIRD FILES!!

We have a Bug Files and a Plant Files, how about a Bird Files too???

There has to be almost every kind of bird already featured in the bird watching forum, why not gather the info together and make a Bird Files??
Many gardeners watch the birds, it would be a great resource for Dave's garden.


What do you all think?

I like that idea!

I like the idea--I love watching birds and it would get me more inspired to learn about them and photograph them if we had birdie files.

Good idea, but probably a lot of work for Dave. FungiFiles would be nice too. Just noticed that one of todays articles is about Morels.

I said over a year ago that BirdFiles will be the next logical step, sounds fun. Maybe it will happen this year.

Wouldn't it be awesome??

Shouldn't be that much work, wouldn't it be the same format as the others, just re-name it Bird Files...LOL

Gotta have some great experts to keep tabs on things and make sure that information that is entered is correct. The programming is probably the easiest thing. Getting some Admin help by someone who is an expert in the field will be the hardest. BugFiles couldn't exist without Kennedyh. We need a bird expert (or more than one)

Aren't there a few hanging out in the Bird Watching forum??

There already is Bird Watching:

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/f/birdwatching/all/

I have a ton of threads watched there. A fascinating and beautiful forum

June

We're after a Bird Files, just like bug files and Plant Files.

Aaah, I get it. I'd really enjoy that and hope it's a possibility.

June

I suggested a bird files a month or so ago when the topic came up of new forums. I know I would love it as so many others would too ... I bet it would be one of the most clicked on pages on DG!

Hmmm ... we gotta have at least one Bird expert here in this Garden! Has anyone asked on the Bird Watching forum? There are some real knowledgeable folks over there. I sure hope we find someone who will volunteer for this project! I Love Plant Files and am always looking up plants and I know I would use Bird Files a lot too!

I have 3-4 books which I try to use, but the photography is the pits. Right now I usually end up asking someone for an ID. In PlantFiles there's a button to click on and Dave pronounces the word. Could we have something like that for the bird's call?

Good idea!!

That would be soooo cool.

Birds are just as important part of our gardens as the bugs and flowers. I vote for BIRD FILES as a place to go to help identify birds. There are some fantastic photographers on the Birdwatching forum who I am sure would be happy to add to the files.

I would love that and can contribute pictures that my brother has taken, he's a birder. He wouldn't have time to post them but I would love to add images.

This sounds like a great idea! I'm all for it.

I contribute to the Birdwatching forum and think a Bird Files would be a great idea. I wish I were an expert , but I'm not...if I were though, I would be glad to help.

Love the idea of BirdFiles. Hope this can take place.

Yes, please!

That would be a great idea!

Birdfiles would have my support 100% and I would do everything I could to help. Seems like Birdfiles would be hugely popular around the world.
The opening paragraph from a wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdwatching
"Birding has emerged in recent decades as a popular hobby in the United States. Hundreds of thousands of people consider themselves to be serious birders, and several million regard themselves as casual birders. Birding is even more popular in Britain than it is in the United States. Roger Tory Peterson played a central role in the emergence and defining of modern birding, both in the United States and Britain."

Nobody could make an online birding resource better than Dave!!