Yo, Lars, have another. I think Geoff is mistaken regarding the backtracks
provided that birding is going on. I told him that. If you are staggering back
to your car in the driving rain and not birding, well, that's different.
There is a legitimate distinction to be made between data gathered by people
keeping the usual party data and those who don't.
For those in my part of the state, we won't be birding at all because we are
getting another ice storm on Saturday, sigh....
Alan Contreras
Eugene, Oregon
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On Jan 5, 2017, at 5:33 PM, Lars Per Norgren <larspernorgren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I found several responses to the protocol questions downright
assinine. If I walk two miles out Bayocean Spit then two miles back, you can
bet your sweet ass I'm going to record 4 miles. My eyes weren't closed, my
ears weren't shut. The effort one way is the same as the effort the other,
and most of the individual birds NEVER get counted. Geoff apparently needs to
find himself a life.
As for eBird records on count day-if the bird was present on count day
inside the count circle, why the hell not count it? Geoff's concern about
double-counting is absurd. And PLENTY of "official" counters don't make
complete tallies, in fact most of them. The number of participants that
don't/can't bird by ear is substantial. In fact they probably constitute a
majority. The guy comes across as a control freak rather than a
scientifically oriented pragmatist.
Lars
