jurek
Well-known member
These databases like ebird indeed create a whole new range of errors: those made by putting the records wrongly and by glitches in the system. My local database suggests a bird name, but a first name alphabetically, so sometimes there appear Laughing Gulls instead of Little Grebes and so on.
Annoying is that 'big' errors are easily spotted, but a substitution between two commoner species nobody would notice.
Annoying is that 'big' errors are easily spotted, but a substitution between two commoner species nobody would notice.