As I think I'm being called out here perhaps let's talk about some recommendations on how rarities are reported? Andrew you could take the lead here? One problem is that there are two “rare bird alerts” for NY that are often filled with run-of-the-mill daily lists and non rarity sightings. While these are of interest to some, they dilute the power of an RBA. As a suggestion could we make a recommendation that one of these becomes a true RBA for NYSARC reportable or at least scarce taxa only ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) and the other a site for daily lists and musings on other aspects of local birding ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>). Of course the proliferation of bird alerts on Social Media such as #birdcp on Twitter and various WhatsAp and text alert groups add to the confusion. In short it would be great to standardize how and where true rare bird info appears. Ideally we should have a true RBA listserve like the one that Lloyd ran a few years ago. Over to you Andrew.
Paul Sweet Paul Sweet | Department of Ornithology | American Museum of Natural History | Central Park West @ 79th St | NY 10024 | Tel 212 769 5780 | Mob 718 757 5941 On Nov 20, 2016, at 1:10 PM, Andrew Baksh [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [ebirdsnyc] <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Good point but for many, the Nassau County ATFL might be out of the way. More interesting for me, is how the Brooklyn bird was reported. It appears to me that we are once again seeing a break down on how rare to uncommon birds are being reported. I'll withhold fire for now but I again urge all in the game to keep up the generosity of sharing and sharing early and to the wider community. There are a lot of birders who don't text, tweet or are not using any form of social media to communicate. Let's not leave them out. 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