[wisb] Re: Budgerigar in La Crosse
- From: Nick Anich <nicka29@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wisbirdn <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 11:49:33 -0700 (PDT)
Matt, feel free to submit it. It's sort of a complicated issue with exotics in
eBird. The short answer is they are encouraging people to submit everything.
That said, something like this will probably get invalidated on the back end
and hidden from public output because this likely is not part of a population
that will become established. With other birds (e.g. European Goldfinch, Great
Tit) although they are clearly escapes, they may become established in the
future and the only way we will be able to have any information on
distribution/abundances is if people enter these in even if not wild or
countable. So in general they are encouraging you to report everything, even
though some things may not be included on the public output at this time, that
could change in the future if they develop new tools to show "non-countable"
species.
Nick Anich
Ashland
Subject: Budgerigar in La Crosse
Date: Sun Sep 8 2013 12:50 pm
From: matpaulson AT netscape.net
No doubt this is an escaped bird and not a vagrant from Australia, but an
interesting sight nonetheless. It was found at the start of the spillway dike
on the west side of French Island. It is all yellow and seems to be loosely
associated with a small group of grackles. It was observed flying among the
cottonwoods at the start of the dike and the first yard north of the dike. Does
anyone know if eBird would want this submitted? I couldn't find any guidelines
on escaped or feral birds on the site.
Matt Paulson
La Crosse
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