Thanks Trevor,
Delighted if that is the case. I assume the eBird records will go through the
same moderation process and that must be generating quite a workload.
Just as an aside: I notice on eBird that when browsing recent entries there are
often multiple entries for what appears to be the same survey or outing. e.g.
say a group of 5 observers visit a site and record 23 species - there are at
times five different entries all for the same 23 species.
I do hope the Atlas moderator ditches 4 of the 5??? or we would surely be
biasing abundance ratios etc. I wonder if that is the case?
Best
Graeme
> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 21:01:27 +1030
> From:
> To:
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] The Atlas and Yet another listing app!
>
>
> On 17/10/2014 10:54 AM, Graeme Stevens wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > As a long term "Atlasser", I consider it would be a great shame indeed if
> > the increasing volume of field work registered on e-bird and Eremaea did
> > not contribute to what is now a long term and very rich database created
> > over decades by dedicated "citizen scientists" and professional
> > ornithologists. (the current Atlas registers 677,000 surveys covering
> > 318,000 sites)
> Hi everyone,
>
> After a long debate with myself about what to do with my many thousands
> of bird records going back many years I have recently started entering
> my bird observations into E-bird. It clearly states on the site that all
> records feed into the Birdlife Australia Atlas Database:
>
> /*Eremaea eBird feeds into the Birdlife Australia Atlas database and is
> used to help make conservation decisions for Australian birds. In this
> way any contribution made to eBird increases our understanding of the
> distribution, richness, and uniqueness of the biodiversity of our planet.
>
> */Mind you, the above quote took me a while to find, but there it is, so
> I am entering data as quickly as time and energy allows. In the early
> Australian Atlas days I contributed many hundreds of sheets but over the
> last decade that effort has dwindled to zero due to personal reasons.
>
> It concerned me that all of my observations going back to the mid 1970s
> would languish unused on my computer database (Birdinfo). Ebird is my
> way of continuing to make a valuable contribution to conservation.
>
> I hope that this helps to clarify the Atlas question regarding Ebird.
>
> Trevor
>
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