[texbirds] Re: Texas Bird Image Archives
- From: Keith Arnold <kbarnold2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Clay Taylor <Clay.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 11:25:35 -0500
All -
Just a reminder that the Texas Photo-Record File receives all photographic
evidence [now mostly digital images] submitted to the TBRC. In addition, we
accept such evidence for regional and county records for things such as
first DOCUMENTED records for first occurrence or first nesting. With rare
species, second, third and four records are also, as these may indicate a
trend or change in distribution of the species in Texas.
Keith Arnold
Bryan/YAMU
On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 11:58 PM, Clay Taylor <Clay.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Jim -
>
> Well said. I am as guilty as any when it comes to submitting images of
> birds from locations other than my Local Patch, and even then I have my
> good days and bad months.
>
>
> Clay Taylor
> TOS Life Member
> Calallen (Corpus Christi), TX
> Clay.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: texbirds-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:texbirds-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Jim Peterson
> Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2015 5:04 PM
> To: Brush Freeman
> Cc: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [texbirds] Re: Texas Bird Image Archives
>
> Brush:
> Thanks for posting this about the lack of bird images.
>
> As everyone is aware, the photo-documentation of birds has become prolific
> since we all threw away film and went digital. Almost everyone has a camera
> in their pocket now. And frankly, there are about a 30-40 photographers who
> are so prolific in certain areas that they can make up for problems within
> a region. For example, there are probably 3-4 photographers that carry 70%
> of all the photo-documentation for Region 6, because they take lots of
> pictures. I'm extremely grateful for that, but I wouldn't mind spreading
> the workload.
>
> Part of this lack of photo-documentation is our own fault in the birding
> community. We had gone decades archiving all of our written documentation
> with North American Birds, TOS, and even local Audubon sightings in
> newsletters. We never thought much about it. Written documentation was
> important. Then suddenly when photography took-off and everyone started
> taking really good images easily, we sort of acted like it was just
> recreation. Images got spread all over the Internet when we should have
> been archiving them along with the written documentation. All of that
> photo-documentation helps reinforce our Texas accepted species. It helps
> document rarities, and it helps us with plumage variations by adding a
> visual reference.
>
> In Texas, we have huge amounts of regional rarities that are beyond the
> scope of the Texas Bird Records Committee in most cases. A Black-throated
> Sparrow in Dallas County, for example, would be extremely rare there even
> though it's fairly common just two counties to the west. We simply have had
> no adequate structure for preserving photo-documentation of such species
> should it become available. The status and distribution of all Texas birds
> will have to rely heavily on these images in the future. It's not like our
> museums are going to be re-filled with voucher specimens.
>
> Since we now have a online mechanism with the TOS \ Texasbirdimages
> website, I think it's just a matter of time before every photographer gets
> acquainted with the importance of archiving images just like written
> documentation
>
> Our biggest problems are with regions that have a combination of both low
> population and a lack well-visited birding locations, namely the Texas
> Panhandle (Region 1), East Texas (Region 3), and Central Texas (Region 6).
> So if you have images of birds that are at least fairly uncommon even for
> a county in those regions (or any region), it might be worth it to submit
> them.
>
> Sorry for the speech-talk... and thanks to the photographers who continue
> to submit work (over 500 photographers at present). I am always amazed that
> so many do.
>
> Jim Peterson
> Dallas, Texas
> http://www.texasbirdimages.com
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Brush Freeman <brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > .
> > Looking thru this I see quite a few gaps for region 6, not so
> > regularly birded. Surely there are photos out there of the Bastrop
> > Lake Blue-footed Booby, the Fayette Lake Common Black-Hawk,
> > Rough-legged Hawk, Sabine's Gull etc. etc. It is kind of embarrassing
> > we in the region are under-represented. ....You can view the archive
> > at http://www.texasbirdimages.com/home and submit any photos you might
> > have to
> > fill in the blanks. I'm not a photographer but will try....Somewhere I
> > have a photo of Black-throated Blue but I have given up for now,
> > trying to find it. Likely it is mislabeled.
> > **********************************************************************
> > Brush Freeman
> > 503-551-5150 Cell
> > 120 N. Red Bud Trail. Elgin, Tx. 78621
> > http://texasnaturenotes.blogspot.com/
> > Finca Alacranes., Utley,Texas
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> taken. Texasbirdimages generally does not to crop any images, but some
> exceptions are made. All images will be "optimized" for web viewing in
> order to reduce the byte size. See the "Terms and Conditions" at the
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