One thing that has impressed me about Hugh is the extent to which he has entered his old field notes into eBird. Like Pat O’Driscoll, I find when I enter eBird reports that Hugh has been there many years before me.
Chuck Hundertmark Lafayette CO > On Sep 6, 2021, at 10:05 AM, Scott Somershoe <[email protected]> wrote: > > I completely agree with Patrick. I’d add a story about a long time Tennessee > birder and big time world birder who moved to Florida about 7 years ago. > Before Terry Witt moved, he threw nearly 50 years of birds records in the > trash. Nothing is in EBird or Avisis or archived in any way. He told me he > threw everything out because he didn’t think anyone would want them. Such a > shame. Unfortunately he passed away about a month ago. > > Even if the records are in EBird, archiving the original field notes would be > worth the effort. > > My 2 cents. > > Scott Somershoe > Littleton CO > Green big year stands at 253 species. Zzzzzzzz. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Sep 6, 2021, at 9:23 AM, Patrick O'Driscoll <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> I wholeheartedly agree with Chuck. >> Pre-eBird paper lists are important artifacts of our birding history, >> especially as so much of our recordkeeping has shifted to digital. >> And Jeff, your remarks are a great reminder for all of us to archive our >> earlier lists on eBird. >> Those of us eBirders who regularly visit Denver City Park know something >> about this. >> Sometime after the Cornell Lab invented eBird, a prominent Colorado birder >> who visited City Park regularly in his youth transferred all of his written >> birding lists from there into the database. >> Between 1947 and 1950, young Hugh Kingery recorded hundreds of visits and >> sightings in the park. >> eBird tells us now that Hugh was responsible for the first 80 species >> sightings in Denver City Park, all in that period. (More than three decades >> later, in 1987, he added two more first sightings.) >> Hugh's 320 "Denver City Park" eBird lists far outnumber those of the rest of >> us. >> His is a shining example of the importance of saving all of our sightings to >> the Cornell Lab's brilliant invention. >> >> Good eBirding! >> >> Patrick O'Driscoll >> Denver >> >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 7:48 AM Charles Hundertmark <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Veteran field ornithologists like Hugh should check into archiving their old >> checklists at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. It’s an excellent >> archive housing the records of several of the prominent field ornithologists >> from Colorado’s past. >> >> Chuck Hundertmark >> Lafayette, CO >> >>> On Sep 6, 2021, at 7:41 AM, Jeff Percell <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> You should add the checklists onto eBird, so that everyone can benefit from >>> the data. >>> >>> https://support.ebird.org/en/support/solutions/articles/48001158707-get-started-with-ebird >>> >>> <https://support.ebird.org/en/support/solutions/articles/48001158707-get-started-with-ebird> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Jeff Percell >>> Erie, CO >>> >>> On Sunday, September 5, 2021 at 4:58:36 PM UTC-6 [email protected] >>> <http://aol.com/> wrote: >>> Does anyone know of a place that might have an interest in saving old bird >>> checklists? 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