[TN-Bird] eBird listing numbers
- From: Bill Pulliam <littlezz@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 07:18:32 -0600
Sorry to chime in a bit late on this
Something to consider when looking at eBird list totals, they include
all species you have reported, regardless of "wildnesss." I'm not
talking about Hooded Cranes, but about Muscovy Ducks, Whooping
Cranes, lovebirds, and munias. There's an as yet unresolved issue
here in that eBird encourages reporting of all exotics, not just the
"countable" ones, in order to track them for scientific purposes.
But they are not excluded from list totals. This is a topic of much
discussion in internal eBird circles, and no simple resolution is
forthcoming in the immediate future.
List totals also include institutional and group accounts (e.g. I was
listed twice, once as me, once as the compiler of the Big Sandy CBC)
if the account owner has not remembered to go into the account
preferences and "opt out" of the listing games (my bad, fixed).
Bill Pulliam
Hohenwald TN
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