Every so often I get a little tweaked over the hype associated with eBird.
Yes, it's a useful endeavor.
Yes, it's actual science - but it's science with a large error level
in the data, and the error isn't trivial to estimate.
It has the sort of error level I associate with a badly-controlled
Socio
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> It ain't science. Sorry, but that is just the way it is set up. If you
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Hi all,
That UK birder wanting a decent checklist for birds of New York City
started something, did he or she not... and thanks to Phil and many
others, for continuing the thread on this subject.
Since the post as titled to this list made reference to the nycbirdreport.com
now-static lists,
To access and peruse all the NYSARC records, listed by species and
summarized, since its inception, go to: nybirds.org/NYSARC/RecordsSummary.htm
Also, for more detail, a searchable archive of all issues of The Kingbird
can be accessed through our Web site: nybirds.org
Berna Lincoln
NYS Ornithol
For those of you with an aversion to reading my wordy posts, see:
http://philjeffrey.net/NYC_unofficial_list.html
For the rest of you:
Thanks to the many people that replied, mostly off-list.
There is no official checklist. The best approximation is the one
appearing in NYC Audubon's NYC birding
