I might add I also wish ebird reporting would include other information like:
if you observed a red-tailed hawk, was it an adult(with a red tail) or not ?,
or if you observed a large flock of cedar waxwings feeding on a bush of
berries, what kind of berries were they( holly or privet or unknown)? My point
would be more information if warranted about the sightings and so on!
Jackie Elmore
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From: birdky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Lyneart <lyneart@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2019 11:17 AM
To: Roseanna Denton
Cc: BirdKY
Subject: [birdky] Re: Fw: Re: ebird challenge
Roseanna,
Don’t worry, pooh poohing isn’t going to deflect me from my effort to post a
daily list. I can see with a mere 2 days of reporting how a daily list can be
useful. I saw 22 species yesterday and 20 today, but today’s list included 4
species not seen yesterday. Each daily list will be about the same as the
previous day’s list, but overall species will accumulate through the year and
bar charts will show relative abundance and timing of arrival & departures.
Whether or not this additional data will be useful to others, it will be useful
to me to be able to see my own bar charts accurately reflecting what I see
throughout the year. Ebird has bar charts & other data sets for each user's
birding in each location.
Frank Lyne
frank@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:frank@xxxxxxxxxxx> - near Dot in Logan County, KY
On Jan 2, 2019, at 9:32 AM, Roseanna Denton
<roseannamd@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:roseannamd@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
As someone who doesn't consider any bird species insignificant; I couldn't
disagree more. Daily lists can tell eBird researchers a lot about bird
movements. When they migrate in or out and move around. What habitats supports
the most and types of species and numbers and what time of year. I don't know
all the important ways eBird researchers use the data, but I trust if they ask
for this data it's useful to them.
Roseanna Denton
Science Hill
On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 8:29 AM
<brainard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:brainard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I will probably receive some "heat" for this response, but to me the "complete
checklist *every* day" challenge in eBird does not accomplish much other than
add "clutter" to the database. It results in countless meaningless, redundant
and often insignificant lists in eBird . . .
As someone hoping that eBird can become what Cornell and all interested in
conservation of birds would want -- a permanent repository for meaningful bird
data that can be used for significant conservation efforts and a data set of
record -- I would *much* more prefer to see *everyone* enter all of their *more
significant* birding efforts and bird sightings into eBird.
I would propose a different challenge ... during 2019, try to get some of your
more interesting historical information into eBird -- *and* -- try to convince
someone who birds but does not use eBird to start entering meaningful data ...
an unnamed independent businessman here in Louisville will be my target of the
latter ...
bpb, Louisville
-----Original Message-----NOTES TO SUBSCRIBERS
From: Lyneart <lyneart@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:lyneart@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
Sent: Jan 1, 2019 6:34 AM
To: BirdKY <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
Subject: [birdky] ebird challenge
Ebird is always challenging users to submit one check list a day for a whole
year to have a chance to win a pair of expensive binoculars. The slight
chance of winning a pair of binoculars has never been enough to make me post
lists every day. However, in exploring data and looking at the bar charts for
the species seen on my place, I couldn’t help but notice seasonal gaps in
lots of species that are here all year. Going by my bar charts, one would
think nothing much stays on my farm during June, July and August. Those are
busy months for a farmer + I usually only report when my list includes at
least one observation that seems a little out of the ordinary to me. My New
Year’s resolution is to report on ebird every day. I’ll still report here on
Bird KY only when I imagine I have something slightly less mundane to report.
An aside on the thread posted by Brainard and Jackie Elmore - If I had
already been keeping daily lists so far this winter, Robins would have been
on them every day and the whole blackbird tribe would be absent most days.
That could change at any time.
Frank Lyne
frank@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:frank@xxxxxxxxxxx> - near Dot in Logan County, KY
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