Hi all, Thank you, Laurent, Matt, Doug, Rob, and Magnus, for bringing up good questions and opportunities for discussion! The eBird (Marshall Iliff, Brian Sullivan, Chris Wood) and BirdCast (yours truly) teams reviewed this situation, your questions, and your comments, and we came up with some changes to the NFC Protocol. We revised the NFC protocol, and you can see it here: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/about/nfc-count-protocol. Please take time to read this protocol, as it has some important points you need to know when submitting observations. These changes are live, so you can begin entering data as you see fit. I think, and we hope, that the protocol description will clarify questions and comments raised in previous emails. Of course, if there are more discussions to be had or comments, please feel free to address them to me privately or to the group, if appropriate.
Let me highlight a few important points: 1. Data from remote listening stations (e.g. that record while you sleep and that you review later, etc) are now accepted. If you would like to do this, you *must* create a *SEPARATE* account using the *same email for your primary account* and label the account in a very specific way (i.e. your name NFC Station). Please read the protocol for details. 2. We ask for as much relevant metadata for NFC protocol submissions as you can possibly provide. We provided a few examples in the protocol documentation. 3. Please continue to mark "N" to the "Are you reporting all species?" question, for now. 4. We hope to add a way for listers to mark species as "do not count on lists" in the future, and also to opt out of Top100, etc. This requires substantial development and, so, will take some time . . . Again, please feel free to contact me to discuss this, or, if relevant to the NFC group as a whole, address the community. Now . . . go out and listen, start up your gear, and program your stations . . . then enter all your observations into eBird! Good birding . . . at night, Andrew -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
