[texbirds] Re: Need your knowledge
- From: Cameron Carver <c.o.carver@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "gil.eckrich@xxxxxxx" <gil.eckrich@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 14:35:26 -0600
Yes, people need to realize that there are a dozen or so different databases
out there (or more). BUT in this increasingly interconnected, globalized
digital world that we live it would be nice (and a goal to strive for) to have
a single, universal database for bird observations. And don't get me started on
the secret nature of some research and personal observations. People need to
get over themselves. We don't own our observations and we don't own the science
we conduct. Sharing is caring.
And in the interest of full disclosure and to cover my ass, I work under
non-disclosure agreements and fully comply with them. Just doesn't mean that I
agree with them.
Also... Sorry for that secrecy tangent.
Cameron Carver
Lubbock, TX
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> On Nov 15, 2013, at 14:06, "gil.eckrich" <gil.eckrich@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On the other hand, too much reliance on ebird, or some other 'database', can
> be misleading. On more than one occasion I had out-of-state
> birders/photographers contact me to adjust or even cancel a field trip to
> Fort Hood to see Black-capped Vireo or Golden-cheeked Warbler because they
> had perused ebird and had found NO reports for either species for the
> installation. I tried to explain, sometimes unsuccessfully, that our data is
> entered in our own database and not into ebird.
> Gil Eckrich
> Belton
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: texbirds-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:texbirds-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Susan Schaezler
> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 9:05 AM
> To: Texbirds
> Subject: [texbirds] Need your knowledge
>
> We had one interesting event in the zoning hearing and I wanted to ask our
> talented Texbirders. This was the gist :
>
> "the developer described ebird as being run by an out-of-state college, as
> if it's a bad thing. You know, ivy leagues are unreliable. "
>
> Their biologist continued by implying it was for more novice/casual birders
> and wasn't reliable. They use Geospace and since I didn't have a single
> bird listed, they were surprised. I told them I had never heard of it and
> all my birds are in Ebird and some get into the RBA
>
> The Commission members wanted me to see if I needed to enter data somewhere
> else. The developers saw the pictures of the birds, but no data.
>
> So, please share your knowledge!
>
> Susan Schaezler
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