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g'Day All,
This a confession of a sin.
I also have been guilty of marking the wrong bird on my
Atlas Forms which in turn were queried by Rory Poulter at
BA.
(I presumed that BA have a computer check that
compares new records for a 1 degree block against the "old" Atlas)
e.g. Noisy Miner instead of Yellow-throated M
Pied Currawong for
Pied Butcherbird
Red-browed
Treecreeper for Black-tailed T/c
Marion Crouther, my regional organiser has also picked up
a couple more Atlas Form entry boo-boo's before they got to BA.
After reading all the earlier correspondence on Birding-Aus re
identification of Forest Kingfishers, I asked Rory to delete a record of
mine. It 'coulda' been, as it was different to a definite Sacred
K/if nearby....but I cannot remember noting the white wing patches in
flight.
These errors have knocked my ego (and perhaps credibility)
down a notch or two.
Now that the records are available on the web, we (with PC's
and Mac's) can check our specialist 1 deg blocks, and highlight any
possible anomalies that may have slipped through.
I wish to publicly thank all the people who are
involved sorting and checking the heaps of info that is flooding in.
Regards,
Bob Forsyth
Mount Isa, NW Qld.
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