een bar reflects the frequency of
detections on eBird checklists within the region (referred to as detection
frequency). Detection frequency is provide for each of 4 "weeks" of each
month (although these are not technically 7 day weeks since months have more
than 28 days). The data underlying the bar charts can be downloaded via a
link at the bottom right of the page; however, the text file that's
downloaded is in a challenging format to work with. This function is designed
to read these text files and retu