[texbirds] Re: Another eBird location rant
- From: Clay Taylor <Clay.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "antshrike1@xxxxxxx" <antshrike1@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 02:48:34 -0400
All -
Taking a big step backward and viewing the forest, not just a single tree
branch:
since it was ONE grassquit, that occurred through ONE viewing period along the
TX coast, does the precise eBird location REALLY matter?
Zoom the map back to view the entire country, and there is one dot just NE of
the coastal bend. Isn't that enough to establish were the bird occurred?
Granted, if there had been multiple birds over multiple years, or a single bird
that occurred in multiple points as it toured TX, that would make the location
of the data points a different matter.
While I agree that it is good to be as precise as possible when initially
entering records into eBird, would spending (many) hours logging in corrections
really be justified?
Clay Taylor
Calallen (Corpus Christi) TX
Clay.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent from my iPad
On Sep 3, 2013, at 9:07 PM, "antshrike1@xxxxxxx" <antshrike1@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Want a laugh? Check out the number of locations on eBird for the
> Yellow-faced Grassquit that occurred at Goose Island State Park in early 2011.
>
> http://ebird.org/ebird/tx/map/yefgra1?neg=true&env.minX=-108.23327115842324&env.minY!.257174039988602&env.maxX=-92.41295865842324&env.maxY(.273952810183967&zh=true&gpúlse&mr=1-12&bmo=1&emo&yr00-2013&byr00&eyr
> 13
>
>
> This link is so long it may not work. Anyway the map shows markers from
> Rockport all the way to Aransas NWR. And this bird never moved more than 100
> yards at best. We really butchered our entries on the eBird map. In fact I
> was so lazy I just entered it for Aransas County. I'm as guilty as the next.
> Anyway I fixed my entry so the bird is shown where it occurred, Goose Island
> State Park. We need to be more careful and responsible when using eBird.
>
>
> Dan Jones, Weslaco
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