I shall say out loud what so many of us are thinking reading this post... I'm glad that it's not just me that gets invalidated by the superb eBird reviewers. That even the famous Ted Floyd who can hear a bird at 10,000 feet at 2:30 am gets questioned!!! HAHAHA. Susan Wise (still looking for the Golden-crowned Sparrow) Superior, Boulder County
On Saturday, December 26, 2015 at 8:00:40 AM UTC-7, Ted Floyd wrote: > > Hello, Birders. Hannah Floyd and I birded the Valmont Reservoir complex, > Boulder County, late yesterday afternoon, Christmas Day, Fri., Dec. 25. The > *common > loon,* first reported, I believe, by Bill Kaempfer on the Boulder CBC > (Dec. 20), was still there. The long-present *tundra swan* was there, > too. Nice to see a couple *bald eagles* and a *prairie falcon*. > Mergansers galore. A bit after 3pm, a *Corvus* fly-in featured a *Chihuahuan > raven,* or, perhaps I should say, what I consider to be a Chihuahuan > raven. > > I appreciate the caution that many, including Colorado's superb eBird > reviewers, apply to Chihuahuan raven ID. I suspect our detection of the > raven will be invalidated by the reviewers--and I have no problem with > that. I just wish that invalidated records like this one (ID not disproven, > just uncertain) remained in the public database, prominently flagged as > rejected/invalidated--so that we can at least know what might be out there. > > This is simply a point on which eBird and I are in disagreement. It's okay > to disagree. I think eBird is magnificent, and, as we start to think about > New Years resolutions for 2016, I propose the following: How about if all > of us submit at least one eBird checklist per day for each day of 2016. > eBird is that great. eBird is that important. > > Here's our eBird checklist from yesterday: > > http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S26450225 > > Ted Floyd > Lafayette, Boulder County > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/7f79bafb-c085-4b97-92d0-2685ec33d0a0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
