Hey all- As I understand it, another serious issue can be the quality of the report (as opposed to the photo). I have no idea if this is true with the Ferruginous Hawk record or not. But I've heard of issues where only a photograph is submitted, with no other information or documentation. While the photo may indeed be of the species in question, without other corroborating information, the record is incomplete in in some cases useless. I think in many cases if we give the records committees the respect of time put into completely documenting our sightings, we will often be rewarded with acceptance; they're already doing a lot of work for us, and the least we can do is make accepting the record easy for them.
As noted, too, one can always resubmit with better explanations of how (for instance) a hybrid was or could be ruled out, even if that information was not in the original report. Jesse Ellis Madison WI ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html