[texbirds] Change in How eBird Treats Rock Pigion
- From: David Sarkozi <david@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: TexBirds <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 13:19:21 -0500
As we speak eBird is revising how Rock Pigeon is handled in eBird.
Cornell will differentiate between true wild rock pigeons and feral
populations (i.e. all of the Americas).
eBird has published an article on this at
http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/rock-pigeon/
in eBird there will be three forms listed:
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)
Rock Pigeon (Wild Type)
Rock Pigeon
The plain Rock Pigeon is an overarching species, think of it as Rock Pigeon sp.
Essentially Rock Pigeon in Texas would always be reported as Rock
Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)
Right now both the overarching anbd feral forms will show in apps like
BirdLog. Once all the updates are complete you'll see the overarching
form (i,e, "Rock Pigeon") disappear from the filter and the apps. If
you submit the overarching form in Texas it should get flagged.
This may take a day or two complete, eBird is in the process of
updating over a million records. Until then things will go smoother if
you start submitting all Rock Pigeons as "Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)"
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David Sarkozi
Houston, TX
(713) 412-4409 twitter ID dsarkozi
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