Paul Chapman
Well-known member
Well, how would you treat a person who has problems with keeping records and sometimes says he has seen shorebirds in a rainforest?
Which of course isn't the case here and as a statement is more erroneous than the checklist.......
Of course, if it causes an issue then the checklist can be excluded and the observer will receive a notification that has been done. That has occurred to me before when for instance, I have input a single checklist rather than multiple ones whilst birding around south mainland in Shetland. The records are in there and someone may find them useful. If I was relying on an individual sighting, I would ordinarily go to the checklist and any supporting evidence in any event. Excluding the content seems a shame to me.
The wording used is as follows:-
CHECKLIST FLAGGED
Distance too long. This checklist has been flagged for covering a large distance. Specific locations and shorter distances are required for public display: this checklist and its observations do not appear in public eBird outputs.
https://ebird.org/checklist/S53079982
Personally, I would have thought that others might have found the checklist useful but I understand both sides of the argument.
All the best