RE: [cayugabirds-l] ebird reporting question re: motion activated photos

2020-05-13 Thread Magnus Fiskesjo
reporting question re: motion activated photos Some thoughts about eBird & non-standard reports: EBird has more than one purpose. Certainly ornithologists want usable data, and that means lots of reports made in the same way. That’s why eBird promotes “complete” checklists of a certain le

Re: [cayugabirds-l] ebird reporting question re: motion activated photos

2020-05-13 Thread Dave Nutter
Some thoughts about eBird & non-standard reports: EBird has more than one purpose. Certainly ornithologists want usable data, and that means lots of reports made in the same way. That’s why eBird promotes “complete” checklists of a certain length and time, which can be thrown in the same pile

RE: [cayugabirds-l] ebird reporting question re: motion activated photos

2020-05-12 Thread Wesley M. Hochachka
Hi everyone, As one of the people at the Lab of O who regularly works with data from eBird, I’ll give you my take on answering Deb’s question, from the perspective of someone who is interested in using the data from eBird for research, both for basic science, and applied conservation and

Re: [cayugabirds-l] ebird reporting question re: motion activated photos

2020-05-12 Thread Tom Schulenberg
Maybe someone can clarify or refer me to the right place. I have lived and > birded in the Cayugabirds region for 30+ years and use ebird > > questions regarding eBird should be directed to eb...@cornell.edu good birding, tss -- Thomas S. Schulenberg Research Associate Cornell Lab of

Re: [cayugabirds-l] ebird reporting question re: motion activated photos

2020-05-12 Thread Therese O'Connor
Interesting. Three weeks ago I received a "question" from ebird asking me if I had "additional information" about a siting I had in Seattle in *2014!* I wonder what took them so long to question my birdstrange. Therese O'Connor On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 5:35 PM Deborah G Lauper wrote: > Maybe