The responses below came from Cornell regarding photos in the Macaulay
Library.
There will soon be the ability for crowd-sourced identifications and/or
comments on photos in their library,
which will be especially useful for identification as to age class.
This is yet another great function in Cornell's contributions to
ornithology/birding.
Bob OBrien Portland OR
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From: Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes <cth4@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 7:06 AM
Subject: Crane ID - Macaulay Photo Archive
To: baro@xxxxxxx <baro@xxxxxxx>, greatgrayowl@xxxxxxx <greatgrayowl@xxxxxxx>
Hi Bob and Tony,
I thought I would pass along this information from ML Director, Mike
Webster.
Sincerely,
Chris T-H
*From: *Mike Webster <msw244@xxxxxxxxxxx>
*Subject: **Re: [BIRDWG01] Crane ID*
*Date: *September 27, 2018 at 9:47:32 AM EDT
*To: *"Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes" <cth4@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks for this Chris. You might want to let your friends/correspondents
know that ML currently has a crowd sourcing feature that allows us to add
information to the metadata associated with a photograph (and also audio
recordings). Right now it is very limited — mainly used to add “quality
ratings” to photos/recordings. but as we work out the kinks, we plan to
expand so that additional data, like age and sex, can be added. These would
be crowd-sourced so that errors can be caught, etc. We are excited to see
this coming on the horizon!
Mike Webster
msw244@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes
Field Applications Engineer
Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850
W: 607-254-2418 M: 607-351-5740 F: 607-254-1132
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp
