I have amalgamated my eBird and HBW accounts without a hitch - not getting any unwanted emails or anything.
The eBird listing programme is doing weird things today though.
Steve
Server outage y-day at the university, should be fixed now...
I have amalgamated my eBird and HBW accounts without a hitch - not getting any unwanted emails or anything.
The eBird listing programme is doing weird things today though.
Steve
meaning?
I agree it's going as expected i.e. a US focus on everything.
You can complain about that or you can ask yourself what the alternative would have been: Lynx finding out they were losing too much money and just closing down the whole thing?
Secondly, when you are logged into ebird, you can set your preferences to show bird names in many other versions, including UK-English. You could quietly hope that a similar process could be instigated for whatever other parts of their site you would like to see?
Niels
By the way, 3/4 of the changes at the last update to Clements were non-American.
I am hopeful it will all work out, but sad to see my My Birding lists swapped into Clements taxonomy, but there we are. A shame the video archive is going to disappear, must be very frustrating for those with thousands of items, I am upset I am going to lose my 92.
is it? cannot remember reading that
Niels
Yes the recent update was an improvement on the past!
BTW the taxonomy difference even after the last update is approx 50 on my list. So even if you believe IOC is too aggressive with their splits - the difference is very significant. It's not about my list size - if I could see Clements justifications why they don't support them all then I'm ok (if I agree with the justification it's my list!). Whilst I have no doubt some of those IOC splits will get lumped eventually there is also plenty of regional research which will add even more splits far outwaying the lumps once eventually making their way through research processes!
Look at the highlighted words in the quote, it's clear what I mean.
There was also speculation as to what would happen to established nomenclature, Longpsur, Loon, Jaeger et al with the IOC already preferring American names as standard for many species which are not unique to the Americas.
HBW Alive will become the backbone of Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s new Birds of the World in early 2020. The renowned Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW Alive) content has transitioned from Lynx Edicions (Lynx) to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (the Cornell Lab), where this exciting new platform is under development.
"under development" sounds very ominous . . . will the HBW text be preserved verbatim, or will it all be changed from centimetres into inches and grammes into ounces, and so on, just to suit American imperial tastes? That would be a ghastly retrograde step, but entirely typical (I've seen it happen elsewhere, many times).From that FAQ:
Cornell said:HBW Alive will become the backbone of Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s new Birds of the World in early 2020. The renowned Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW Alive) content has transitioned from Lynx Edicions (Lynx) to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (the Cornell Lab), where this exciting new platform is under development.
I'm really pleased to hear that, because HBW is an excellent resource and I refer to it frequently.
However the taxonomy used in HBW is significantly different from the taxonomy used at Cornell -- everybody reading this thread knows that already. So I'm curious where they are going to go with that. It's certainly an opportunity for them.
"under development" sounds very ominous . . . will the HBW text be preserved verbatim, or will it all be changed from centimetres into inches and grammes into ounces, and so on, just to suit American imperial tastes? That would be a ghastly retrograde step, but entirely typical (I've seen it happen elsewhere, many times).
I wish I could say I was, but - as mentioned - it would be far from the first time that I have seen US sites take information with originally metric data, remove it, and replace with imperial stuff.I presume you are joking now?
Are you seriously suggesting that a scientific endeavour will use imperial measurements?
I wish I could say I was, but - as mentioned - it would be far from the first time that I have seen US sites take information with originally metric data, remove it, and replace with imperial stuff.