The umpteen responses I’ve gotten to the contrary are why I hedged my sureness.
Does anyone know the proper protocol for entering escapees on checklists (benefitting science) without having them inaccurately show up on lifelists (benefitting type-A listers)? Also, I know some of my Central Park checklists include Budgies, but there’s no Budgie on my NYS life list, so I must have done something right. Thanks! On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 12:47 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > I’m 95% sure that European Goldfinches (like Budgies) won’t show up on > anyone’s eBird NY State life list even if you keep the species in your > regular checklists. eBird knows what to count/not count in that respect. > > On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 12:38 PM Deborah Allen <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> The European Goldfinches should be entered into ebird, especially if >> there is any evidence of breeding, so their populations can be monitored. >> >> Deb Allen >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: nathan o'reilly >> Sent: Dec 19, 2017 4:55 AM >> To: Ben Cacace >> Cc: NYSBIRDS-L , eBirds NYC >> Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Governors Island: European Goldfinch Flock >> (18-Dec) >> >> Prospect Park/Brooklyn birders: Have any of you seen them more recently >> and do you enter the European Goldfinch into ebird when you see them? I >> know some birders do not consider them "wild" so they do not report them to >> ebird. >> >> Cool sightings for Gov Island though. It is unfortunate to be closed off >> to the public over the winter. >> >> Nate >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Dec 19, 2017, at 4:48 AM, Ben Cacace <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Unfortunately the island is closed to the public until May 1st but I was >> very lucky to get invited to the island yesterday. >> >> There was a small flock of European Goldfinch in Hammock Grove of ~12 >> birds and a small group of 5 (same birds?) seen off Nolan Park later in the >> day. >> >> I was looking into European Goldfinch sightings on eBird and the most >> recent one in the area is from Prospect Park on Nov 26th of one bird. The >> only sightings "locally" are from Bermuda and points north of Chicago. The >> number of individuals from the Lake Michigan group are no higher than 8 >> individuals for sightings between Nov-Dec of this year. >> >> European Goldfinch: Current Year Map for Nov-Dec >> • https://tinyurl.com/y7yg59yx >> ... zoom out to view sightings from Bermuda. >> >> Is the most likely explanation that these are a new set of escaped birds? >> Or could the weather have had an effect on local populations? They >> understood Sweetgums as a food source and the birds were very vocal. 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