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  1. opisska

    eBird and Birding on the move

    Yeah I get that, but this really works well in places like the Amazon, where there are very few hotspots - like in Ecuador, there were like 5 of them in the entire Napo valley. But in densely birded countries, there is a lot of hotspots covering a small area and none of them has all the birds...
  2. opisska

    eBird and Birding on the move

    I still don't understand how the hotspot system helps in trip planning. As far as I know, there is no way on eBird to list species in a random area, so if I want to find what my targets could be somewhere, I see two options: get a list of species in a country (or maybe province, if I am lucky)...
  3. opisska

    eBird and Birding on the move

    Maybe you meant to quite another post and not mine? Because all I was asking really was how it worked: I do regularly see my eBird friends logging bird into the app in the field as they see them, so the per-bird location data already exist without any extra work at least for those observers.
  4. opisska

    eBird and Birding on the move

    I find the distinction between "observer location" and "bird locations" a false argument, when compared with the eBird option of "a hotspot a mile away". I also don't understand what is so unfathomable on the concept "I will record positions of birds as seen, without any other hassle, and this...
  5. opisska

    eBird and Birding on the move

    I was sometimes considering starting using eBird. But the way how it works just annoys me so much. I do not wish to record "checklists" for "hotspots", I wish to record birds. I would like to be able to just record any bird, at the moment I see it and I would like this to be the location stored...
  6. opisska

    eBird and Birding on the move

    Well for non-birds, there really is iNaturalist. For birders, it's not practical, because it asks for a photo for each observation, but for hard-to-ID things like most insects, this is the best approach if you want to have some reasonability in the data. So there really isn't much to invent in...
  7. opisska

    eBird and Birding on the move

    I still fail to see the benefit of intentionally discarding information. If you want to collect data, why go out if your way to make sure you don't collect them precisely? As for "the purpose of eBird is not for people to find birds" - this only reinforces my statement that it's a shame that...
  8. opisska

    eBird and Birding on the move

    Wait. So when I see my friends walking with the app on and recording each bird as they register those, this still doesn't get posted to eBird as individual locations, but it get bunched up in one point? Does that mean that all the individual points for birds are a) only when the observe went an...
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