Re: [nysbirds-l] FW: [eBird Alert] Needs Alert for New York

2020-02-02 Thread Sean Sime
When this first started happening (specifically in Tompkins County), I emailed a few people at eBird to see if there was a reason. Here was the response I received; "It's a glitch with the Android version that sometimes loses the location of a list, and defaults to a set of coordinates so that

Re: [nysbirds-l] FW: [eBird Alert] Needs Alert for New York

2020-02-02 Thread Sean Sime
When this first started happening (specifically in Tompkins County), I emailed a few people at eBird to see if there was a reason. Here was the response I received; "It's a glitch with the Android version that sometimes loses the location of a list, and defaults to a set of coordinates so that

Re: [nysbirds-l] FW: [eBird Alert] Needs Alert for New York

2020-02-02 Thread zach schwartz-weinstein
Needs Alerts and rare bird alerts go out prior to sighting review, which is as it should be, since otherwise the birds would be gone before anyone had received an alert. The recent spate of outlandish reports from Tompkins County are presumably the result of new users not understanding how to

Re: [nysbirds-l] FW: [eBird Alert] Needs Alert for New York

2020-02-02 Thread zach schwartz-weinstein
Needs Alerts and rare bird alerts go out prior to sighting review, which is as it should be, since otherwise the birds would be gone before anyone had received an alert. The recent spate of outlandish reports from Tompkins County are presumably the result of new users not understanding how to

Re: [nysbirds-l] FW: [eBird Alert] Needs Alert for New York

2020-02-02 Thread Jane Ross
Or at least find them a better moderator! Jane F. Ross, PhD 1112 Park Ave. New York, NY 10128 mobile: 917-992-6708 On Feb 2, 2020, at 1:22 PM, ArieGilbert wrote:  Wow. Lets all go to Ithaca. Eburd. For syentifik purpisses only. Original message From:

Re: [nysbirds-l] FW: [eBird Alert] Needs Alert for New York

2020-02-02 Thread Jane Ross
Or at least find them a better moderator! Jane F. Ross, PhD 1112 Park Ave. New York, NY 10128 mobile: 917-992-6708 On Feb 2, 2020, at 1:22 PM, ArieGilbert wrote:  Wow. Lets all go to Ithaca. Eburd. For syentifik purpisses only. Original message From:

[nysbirds-l] FW: [eBird Alert] Needs Alert for New York

2020-02-02 Thread ArieGilbert
Wow.  Lets all go to Ithaca. Eburd. For syentifik purpisses only.  Original message From: ebird-al...@cornell.edu Date: 2/2/20 4:56 AM (GMT-05:00) To: ariegilb...@optonline.net Subject: [eBird Alert] Needs Alert for New York *** Species Summary:Greater Coucal (1

[nysbirds-l] FW: [eBird Alert] Needs Alert for New York

2020-02-02 Thread ArieGilbert
Wow.  Lets all go to Ithaca. Eburd. For syentifik purpisses only.  Original message From: ebird-al...@cornell.edu Date: 2/2/20 4:56 AM (GMT-05:00) To: ariegilb...@optonline.net Subject: [eBird Alert] Needs Alert for New York *** Species Summary:Greater Coucal (1