The current intent of the list as given on the list's website is not what Kevin McGowan indicated may or may not be the original intent - and I've pointed this out recently - its even linked at the end of every message. Certainly this has not been a purely RBA list for quite some time - although that's more difficult to demonstrate given that there weren't any list archives (!) for quite some time either.
eBird is only one tiny notch up from just a basic list of species. The eBird reports - and I use them for trip research - are frequently without context so they read as: an interesting bird was seen somewhere in tens of acres of habitat and the lack of narrative is hopeless if you want to go find anything that's of interest to you that might drop below the anointed level of rarity. I believe that eBird has damaged local birding lists by the removal of context from sightings. IMHO, that context is extremely valuable to all level of birders and why I run my own list as I do. I've mostly stopped reporting sightings to eBird for this reason. So no, eBird is not the solution. Phil Jeffrey Princeton On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 4:50 PM, Paul R Sweet <sw...@amnh.org> wrote: > Daily lists are great and as I mentioned previously E-bird is an excellent > place to record such data. If everyone posted their Central Park lists to > NYSBIRDS-L it would certainly dilute the power of the list. See Kevin > McGowan's post here https://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/ > msg20105.html regarding the original intent of the list. > > > -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
