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  1. Paul Chapman

    eBird and Birding on the move

    I have removed GPS co-ordinates in the narrative of a Checklist on request by an eBird reviewer (Gran Canaria Chaffinch). I have removed a photo of a Saker Falcon because you may have been able to tell the nest site from the wider geography (Georgia). I have changed a specific location Checklist...
  2. Paul Chapman

    eBird and Birding on the move

    I was using reviewer in the sense of reviewers of records. I see that Hotspot creators are also called reviewers. The reality of course is that the example that I gave of three Hotspots along a 400 metre stretch of path is simply daft. The proliferation of Hotspots looks like a response to...
  3. Paul Chapman

    eBird and Birding on the move

    Agreed in principle. However, the creation of Hotspots is independent from local reviewers & indeed, independent from dedicated local eBirders. In addition, the manner in which the App works can provide false legitimacy to what on occasions is an insane proliferation of individual Hotspots...
  4. Paul Chapman

    eBird and Birding on the move

    Occasionally, it is obvious. Hotspots randomly appear often close to each other. For instance, New Passage & Pilning Wetland. Difficult not to combine the two if you walk for more than 10 mins.... So you end up with species under New Passage that were at Pilning Wetland & vice versa...
  5. Paul Chapman

    eBird and Birding on the move

    Thank you for the very detailed explanation with which I agree in principle. But for the avoidance of doubt, I wouldn't edit eBird to make it more accurate if it worked as you suggest. I doubt anyone else who does a lot of birding and records Checklists like mine would. I anticipate that they...
  6. Paul Chapman

    eBird and Birding on the move

    Out of interest do you use eBird? If you did, I suspect that you would see the flaw in your point. To reinforce the point above, this is my Checklist today:- https://ebird.org/checklist/S158641879 It totals 31 species plus one hybrid. I was travelling for 85 mins with a significant period...
  7. Paul Chapman

    eBird and Birding on the move

    Surely, the purpose of eBird is not to allow non eBird users to find a specific species. I have no interest in the exact locations of individual robins or woodpigeons. It needs to be a useful tool for individual's bird recording which encourages people to use it thereby maximising the data...
  8. Paul Chapman

    eBird and Birding on the move

    Not my experience at all as alluded to here...
  9. Paul Chapman

    eBird and Birding on the move

    I am genuinely puzzled. This is just massively irrelevant to eBird trying to run lists of other taxa which are constantly changing at species level?!? All the best Paul
  10. Paul Chapman

    eBird and Birding on the move

    This is simply not my experience. Far far more species & far far more taxonomic change. i am not sure what personal experience that you have of entomology. Mine is relatively limited but I know a few entomologists including a compiler of one of the databases to which you refer. I also know...
  11. Paul Chapman

    eBird and Birding on the move

    Really enjoyed that. It shows how great the functionality is when you can (inadvertently) create such clear patterns on summer visitors like White Wagtail and Black Redstart or winter visitors like Alpine Accentor or passage birds like Marsh Harrier or Dunnock. Superb. One of my massive...
  12. Paul Chapman

    eBird and Birding on the move

    I cannot see how anyone can think that you can use eBird for your general birding and record every observation as a spot observation. It depends upon how much birding that you do I suppose. But I need to work out if I can start using it whilst out rather than uploading my observations at the end...
  13. Paul Chapman

    eBird and Birding on the move

    Talking about taxonomy and then isolating a group of macrolepidoptera and calling them butterflies grates with me a touch.... Within lepidoptera generally, I think the state of taxonomic flux is probably very fluid & that is before you get to other invertebrate groups. All the best Paul
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