[texbirds] Fw: Re: Bushtits in eastern Edwards Plateau?
- From: "Alan Wormington" <wormington@xxxxxxxx>
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:29:36 GMT
Tony,
A very, VERY excellent post!
Yes it would be **extremely** interesting to analyze which birders actually do
(or do not) enter data into e-bird.
The big one: What percentage of long-time (experienced) birders actual enter
their data into e-bird?
(I do not use e-bird, and never will.)
Alan Wormington
Leamington, Ontario
"Birding is getting goofier and goofier by the day!"
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From: tony gallucci <hurricanetg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Chuck Sexton <gcwarbler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Tex Birds <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rich Kostecke <rkost73@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [texbirds] Re: Bushtits in eastern Edwards Plateau?
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 17:21:11 -0500
two quick impressions/questions about this:
a) is there a bias about which particular checklists are reported to eBird
and/or which BIRDERS report to eBird from the pre-eBird period . . . i could
much envision a scenario in which the checklists that have been added in
multi-year retrospect are ones more likely to have been trips recording
Bushtits . . .
that is -- unless you know a nest site location, Bushtit is never a bird you
just go out and find . . . you run across them in the course of a day of
birding, once in a while . . . and casual little jaunts rarely find them . . .
since the advent of eBird, perhaps even more likely just the last couple of
years (coinciding with drought), one is, i believe, more likely to eBird every
little jaunt into the field, everything gets entered . . .
however, pre-advent (meaning one has to dig through one's own personal trip
lists and spend time entering old data), i believe it's more likely that the
trips that get entered are going to be the major efforts, big trips, daylongs,
the ones with a better chance of finding Bushtits, and folks are not likely to
enter every little stop at the park on the way home, the times less likely to
encounter Bushtits . . .
and b) i would revise this statement (as follows, change in caps) "but what
this *suggests* is that
despite the increased observer coverage and reporting to eBird in
recent years, Bushtits are definitely being encountered less often
from observers who are afield AND WHO REPORT THEIR FINDINGS TO eBIRD."
which is to say i have no way to measure frequency or occurrence or abundance
on my trips, but that i
have seen Bushtits a number of times this spring, at a rate i wouldn't consider
unusual, but really can't
honestly quantify . . . and i don't eBird . . .
all my best,
tony g
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