Hi all, Just to add a bit more context:
There have been many in-depth discussions on this topic among the eBird reviewers, and the folks at Cornell acknowledge that this is an issue they wish to tackle soon. In one of his recent responses to our reviewer listserv, Marshall Iliff indicated that addressing this is a priority for them, so I imagine we should have additional tools soon (perhaps in the next year), presumably impacting what shows up in the public output, and likely including some user-options for what to count and what not to count on our own personal lists. The current recommendation is to report any live, wild birds, including introduced birds (see the bottom of this help page): http://help.ebird.org/customer/en/portal/articles/973921-what-data-are-appropriate- In many places some of those introduced birds will become 'invalidated' by the reviewers, meaning they won't show up in public output (but will still show up on your lists), while other established species will show up on public maps. The important thing is that regardless of review status, those records are still in the database, and if/when they become important to monitor the community will still have access to those records. Some of that process may change once eBird Central invents new tools to deal with the data. Many (but not all) exotics are also 'domestic' types, by which eBird means "distinctly-plumaged domesticated varieties that may be free-flying". Locally this includes things like Budgerigar, 'Swedish' Mallards, etc. There are normally separate taxonomic categories for those birds with the words (Domestic type) in parenthesis. These should only be used for birds that are identifiable as a domestic variety. These domestic varieties currently don't show up on lists. More info on that category can be found on this help page: http://help.ebird.org/customer/en/portal/articles/1006825-the-ebird-taxonomy?b_id=1928 Michael Schrimpf Suffolk Cty eBird reviewer for the high seas and Antarctica On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 1:16 PM, <brian.whip...@gmail.com> wrote: > The umpteen responses I’ve gotten to the contrary are why I hedged my > sureness. > > Does anyone know the proper protocol for entering escapees on checklists > (benefitting science) without having them inaccurately show up on lifelists > (benefitting type-A listers)? > > Also, I know some of my Central Park checklists include Budgies, but > there’s no Budgie on my NYS life list, so I must have done something right. > > Thanks! > > > -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
