Birding Hotspots: A Bird-finding Guide for the eBird Age
Channel: Colorado Field Ornithologists
Date: 2024-02-14

Recorded: 13 February 2024
Speakers: Charles Hundertmark, Ann Johnson, Ken Osermiller

Whether looking for a new birding spot near home or planning an extended trip to the far corners of the state, you’ve probably used a bird-finding guide to help find a prime location. Ten years ago, Ken Ostermiller was thinking about bringing bird-finding guides into the 21st century using crowd-sourcing. The site he developed based on a crowd-sourcing model wasn’t getting much traction until a conversation with fellow birder and software developer Adam Jackson. The conversation hatched the current Birding Hotspots website (https://birdinghotspots.org/) that is rapidly gaining traction across the country. 

Birding Hotspots integrates with eBird hotspots and can help you plan a birding trips. In this program, the history of birding location finding guides is introduced by CFO President Chuck Hundertmark, Ann Johnson then discusses the Colorado County Birding resources (https://cobirds.org/colorado-birding/), and Ken Osermiller provides a tour of Birding Hotspots and how to use it.

To learn more about CFO and to become a member, visit https://cobirds.org/