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  1. kb57

    What Would You Do: Someone badly misidentifying birds on a list

    Just to clarify, the person who posted the photos was aware it was either a marsh or willow tit...it was the RSPB who suggested blackcap! I'm guessing they probably had someone inexperienced responding to Twitter posts, perhaps looking at a 'garden birdwatch' crib sheet which may not have had...
  2. kb57

    What Would You Do: Someone badly misidentifying birds on a list

    Someone posted a picture of a marsh tit on Twitter the other day, asking for advice on whether it was a marsh tit or willow tit, and tagging '@Nature's_Voice' The reply from RSPB identified it as a blackcap....
  3. kb57

    What Would You Do: Someone badly misidentifying birds on a list

    I'm picking up a bit of a trans-Atlantic difference in approach to this issue, with the Nearctic contributors favouring a kinder and gentler treatment of taxonomic miscreants. Is this just a symptom of being more polite over there*? Is this general politeness because the 'Wilson's Flycatcher'...
  4. kb57

    What Would You Do: Someone badly misidentifying birds on a list

    I went to a conference once where someone from the BTO was explaining how they deal with errors in big citizen science datasets. I should perhaps have been paying more attention as to how they approach it statistically, but the key point is they are aware of and take account of data quality. I...
  5. kb57

    What Would You Do: Someone badly misidentifying birds on a list

    The circumstances that the OP described are maybe not so problematic, if it is a well-birded site in USA with multiple submissions to eBird then their observations will stand out as outliers. In most of the rest of the world there is either a much lower takeup of eBird, or fewer observers, so...
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