Well said, Norm! Posting rare/uncommon birds to this forum has slowed
considerably the last few years (
I blame the blasted eBird Top 100 obsession), but is still the quickest way
to get the word out to the masses. I appreciate the birders who still make
an effort to post a timely note to this
Hello Norm,
I just posted on Cobirds about a Scarlet Tanager at a well known eBird
hotspot at Deer Creek Canyon Rd and W. Buckhorn. However, my cell phone
service was not working there, so I had to pull over a little ways down the
canyon to post it, giving the cross streets rather than the GPS i
Hi Norm:
I am trying to learn eBird. It seems to me that on rare species, there is a
delay until someone doing quality control, gives it approval. It happened
to me on a number of rarities here in the San Luis Valley...like the
Scarlet Tanager we also had here. So if someones sighting goes into
Hi John!
That's interesting to hear...I'm subscribed to the Larimer RBA through
ebird, and as long as people report a checklist before a certain time each
day, it will appear in the next alert. Subscribing to the hourly alert is
the "safer" way to go, if you don't want to miss any reports throug
Good points, John.
eBird was not intended as an RBA, due to the reviews for quality control,
etc. These
can happen at once or after days or even weeks. you point out some of the
flaws in the
process, but without quality review, we'll find reports of Yellow-billed
Magpie from Araphaoe County.
The wa
