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  1. Kirk Roth

    Lynx joins with Cornell

    I checked the status of the report - it is pending reviewer action. If you have submitted this six times as you have said, I'm guessing the issue is the reviewer for that area of Portugal. As has been mentioned, the reviewers are all volunteers, and unfortunately some areas of the world have...
  2. Kirk Roth

    Lynx joins with Cornell

    Good to hear! :t:
  3. Kirk Roth

    Lynx joins with Cornell

    Right - and again, all of this is true of eBird except the worry about a paywall. There has been no indication that they would initiate payments for the "explore data" functionalities, and again that would not seem to be in their best interest of attracting more data and participation...
  4. Kirk Roth

    Lynx joins with Cornell

    I'm not sure I understand the concern - I thought this was merging two existing resources more than accessing a "new resource" - however, eBird has been funded by donations, grants, and sponsors for 17 years, and that should not change. It needs to be understood that eBird is primarily a...
  5. Kirk Roth

    Lynx joins with Cornell

    By the same original logic, I suppose I should complain about the agony of having to see the word "encyclopaedia" at the top of Bird Forum every time I log in. Its amazing that a British-based website would not cater immediately and automatically to my U.S. spelling preferences! I know that...
  6. Kirk Roth

    Lynx joins with Cornell

    The other utility of the hotspot data is that it can be pooled into graphs and bar charts, and so will give abundance and seasonal data for a particular spot. When sightings are geographically located to their individual spots, there are two weaknesses involving bulk data analysis - 1) it take...
  7. Kirk Roth

    Lynx joins with Cornell

    Indeed I think eBird does its best to reach out to worldwide users. In the upper right of the website is a language option and while not completely comprehensive, it is nice to have options for non-English and non-western participation. The bird name language for checklists is even more...
  8. Kirk Roth

    Lynx joins with Cornell

    That's a good question. Right now all Cornell has is the ability to switch to IOC but it functions more closely to a language filter than actual taxonomic conversion. I'm sure this is all just as new to the eBird programmers as it is to us - we will have to see if the inclusion of HBW spurs...
  9. Kirk Roth

    Lynx joins with Cornell

    As others have mentioned, there is a subspecies "mode" that you can click on such that the field-identifiable subspecies show up in the checklist entry. It is very important to understand that the mission of eBird is not to provide checklisting tools for everyone, despite the fact that...
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