Maybe swearing is not the best way to emphasize a point...especially with a ""young birder"". Personally I find that word totally offensive !!!!
Shari LaFleur Michael Hendrickson wrote: > > Al Shirmacher asked a simple question to see if anyone could help > with a shorebird identification based on Nathan's photos. Lets not > get bitchy about it! Instead lets answer the question and be a little > more positive so other young birders like Nathan feel comfortable > about asking ID questions on the MOU listserv. > > > > "Since this picture appears to show a bird about the same size and > with the same bill as the identified Stilt Sandpipers what makes you > think > that it is anything different?" > > > > What makes you think it is a Stilt Sandpiper? To me based on > appearance the mystery shorebird looks like a profile of a Pectoral > Sandpiper. Short neck and a dumpy appearance. The bill to me does > not look long enough to be a dowitcher sp. or a Dunlin. So I am > comfortable calling it a Pectoral Sandpiper. I based this ID on > zooming the photo up on my screen. > > > > "Pictures are needed to support the identification of a given bird. > Since > you gave no information as to what you observed in the field or what you > think the species is then the picture is of no value in determining the > species. " > > > > Not true. A quick example: in the ABA "Birding" in the back pages > there is a photo quiz with photos just like these and birders can make > accurate identification based on these type of photos. Many of them > are not ornithologists (-; > > > > Also most of my records I turned into to MOURC do not have photos > attach to them. Also many of current members & past members of MOURC > do not have photos attach to their bird report/documentation reports. > Its just in the past few years with the age of digitial photography > why you see more records with digital photos attach to documentation > reports but before that many many top birders in Minn. did not have > photos clipped to theirr written reports they sent in to MOURC. A lot > of reports were based on written statements and also some drawings. > > > > Mike Hendrickson > Duluth, Minnesota > Website: http://webpages.charter.net/mmhendrickson/ > Blog: http://colderbythelakebirding.blogspot.com/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > --- > This mailing list is sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union. > Mailing list membership available on-line at http://moumn.org/subscribe.html. > ----- > To unsubscribe send a blank email to mou-net-request at moumn.org with a > subject of unsubscribe. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080903/357386a8/attachment.html
