Oooooo!
On Jan 2, 2019, at 20:22, Lindsey McMahon <lindseymcmahon7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
For each person in KY who refrains from posting daily “piddly” lists to eBird,
and instead posts one substantive list per week, for an entire
year....Brainard will give them a new scope! 😉🙃
Lindsey McMahon
Bullitt Co.
On Jan 2, 2019, at 11:28 AM, Jackie Elmore <jackiebelmore@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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 - near Dot in Logan County, KY
On Jan 2, 2019, at 9:32 AM, Roseanna Denton <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> 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>
Sent: Jan 1, 2019 6:34 AM
To: BirdKY <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 - near Dot in Logan County, KY
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