Birders
Ontbirds has posting guidelines designed to help readers find birds they
would like to see. The guidelines are a set of recommendations about
what to post and how to do it. You receive a set of guidelines as an
email with the subject line "Welcome to Ontbirds" when you join the
list. You can also find our Posting Guidelines" on the Ontario Field
Ornithologists website at
http://www.ofo.ca/webapp/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide
Right off the top you will notice the guidelines lack a list of what to
report, this is intentional. The decision about what to report should be
with the reporter. Ontbirds does expect reporters to consider their
audience (other birders) when preparing a report. The report should be
brief and to the point. At a minimum, birds should be uncommon for the
local region or time of year. First of the season birds are sometimes
reported but keep in mind birds migrate in numbers. If Killdeer is
reported once in somewhere in the province you can bank on hundreds if
not thousands occurring across the province. Repetitive posts about
Killdeer probably won't be well received.
As always Ontbirds expects to see posts with subject lines that include
a main species and recognizable location. Posts should use complete
bird names as found on the provincial checklist
http://www.ofo.ca/webapp/site/page/view/checklist.checklist and always
include directions to your bird in the message body.
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Mark Cranford
ONTBIRDS Coordinator
Mississauga, ON
[email protected]
905 279 9576
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ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial
birding organization.
Send bird reports to [email protected]
For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
