[texbirds] Re: Reporting rare birds on Texbirds
- From: Brush Freeman <brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: MBB22222@xxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:18:20 -0600
I will be in attendance for your stoning or beheading if I get an
invite...Of mostly like mind, trust me I have been there and likely still
am...To date the blade has been dull and the stones pebbles....:-)....B
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 9:23 PM, <MBB22222@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Recently a few thoughts on this subject were posted here. I do not reply to
> anybody in particular; these are just my own, loose, thoughts. Nor I try
> to criticize any thoughts posted earlier. We all have rights to our own
> opinion.
> First, in my opinion, reporting any bird here, or somewhere else, is a
> courtesy of the poster. Second, If somebody thinks that something is
> important
> it should do it itself; personally rare birds list with location posted on
> the same day when they have been seen is absolutely not important to me
> but
> knowing that this might be of interest to some people I do sometimes post
> if I saw one in popular place and I do not if I think they are in
> sensitive
> area where this or other birds' welfare can be compromised. What I think
> is 'sensitive\' it might not be to somebody else but my opinion is as
> valid
> as others. I wouldn't question their definitions. It is all relative. I
> understand that we have a few people calling themselves hard core birders
> and
> it seems like those, sometimes, are demanding that other people
> immediately post any interesting finding so they can go and have a tick.
> Personally I
> do not see much satisfaction from chasing birds found by somebody else and
> claim it on the 'list'. It also seems that the tactic of trying to make
> somebody feel guilty if he/her is not immediately sending the report can
> be
> used from time to time as well. BTW, it looks like somebody with a lot of
> money, private jet and horde of local guides could quite easy win big
> year or
> whatever it is called. To some degree this was already been done in the
> past. On the other hand, sure, I am checking eBirds to check migration
> dates
> (of common birds), etc. I would be much more grateful to people who only
> post county were it was seen but correctly IDed the bird. Unfortunately
> eBirds is just a mess as far as this goes. And yes, forums were birds and
> ID
> subjects were discussed in deep are practically gone. Not very good for
> all
> new bird watchers. And, I think these discussions are more important than
> posting rarities. Some people did not have time to learn ID birds yet but
> will
> jump plane to tick one that was found, and IDed, by somebody else (not
> always IDed correctly as we know of quite a few wild goose chases in the
> past
> - sure it is good for local economy ....).
>
> To me the bottom line is: if one is seriously interested in any bird
> groups it has to learn how to ID them himself (or end up with 5 or more
> different names for one bird if choose to keep asking for help) and learn
> how to
> find birds by himself (or keep checking on messages and have his car engine
> running all the time to jump in when rarity is posted).
>
>
> Mark B Bartosik
> Houston, Texas
> _http://www.pbase.com/mbb/from_the_field_
> (http://www.pbase.com/mbb/from_the_field)
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