[obol] Re: eBird data entry - a warning (no sightings)
- From: Bill Bradford <billbradford1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ninerharv2@xxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 07:14:58 -0700
Sometimes it seems like birding citizen science is about as valuable as
brain surgery citizen science. I'll still participate, but I'll often turn
a jaundiced eye to the results.
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 11:45 PM, HARVEY W SCHUBOTHE <ninerharv2@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
> I have done this far more times than I want to admit to! Fortunately,
> some folks do review this data periodically. But I am one of the most
> guilty and it's usually a row off.
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
> *From: *Stefan Schlick
> *Sent: *Tuesday, October 7, 2014 11:37 PM
> *To: *OBOL
> *Reply To: *greenfant@xxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject: *[obol] eBird data entry - a warning (no sightings)
>
> While looking through the cumulative checklist for the eBird hotspot
> Emma Jones Nature Preserve in Hillsboro (ok, I'm pretty much the only
> person birding there), I noticed that there were 3 species that I had
> never seen there: Pileated Woodpecker, Hermit Warbler and I now
> can't remember the third. Somewhat annoyed (after filing 300+ lists for
> Emma Jones) I then went into the check lists to see who had filed the
> report and noticed that it was - who would have guessed - me. What had
> happened was that I was "one row off". I filed 4 Hermit Warblers instead of
> 4 Yellow-rumped Warblers. The Pileated Woodpecker ended up being a Northern
> Flicker. I corrected the data meanwhile.
>
> The point of this story is that you should take the data entry for your
> eBird report seriously. It is very easy for your input to slip one row up
> or down. Review it carefully to confirm what you saw. Don't do what I did,
> just entering the report and hit "send".
>
> Stefan Schlick
> Hillsboro, OR
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