I would love it if people would put the area of sighting as their first word in the subject line. A lot of us live quite far from some of the sightings and have to open the posts only to find they are irrelevant for us. Thanks! On 2013-02-13, at 9:13 AM, Mark Cranford [Ontbirds] wrote:
> 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. > > -- > --- > Mark Cranford > ONTBIRDS Coordinator > Mississauga, ON > [email protected] > 905 279 9576 > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > _______________________________________________ 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/
