Hi all, thanks for raising this. Turns out it's a technical problem with the
postcodes function, rather than spurious sightings. It wouldn't show up on a
data extraction so the researchers are safe. We're looking into it, and might
need to take this function down for a while.
All the best,
James
James O'Connor
Head of Research
BirdLife Australia
> On 8 May 2015, at 7:16 am, Carl Clifford <> wrote:
>
> Not really. Even by taking in of the whole 111Km x 111Km square, there is no
> way that some of the species could be sighted there. Obviously, there are
> well meaning, but ornithologically deficient people out there who post to
> BirdData, sightings that are furphys. Pity, because the database is used for
> researchers, and junk data gives junk results, as we know from the first law
> of computing, GIGO.
>
> Carl Clifford
>
>
>> On 7 May 2015, at 5:58 pm, Peter Shute <> wrote:
>>
>> According to http://birdata.com.au/help_lists.vm, it's displaying data for
>> the entire 1 degree x 1 degree grid cell that postcode falls within. How far
>> is that where you live? Does that explain the anomalies?
>>
>> Peter Shute
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>>> On 7 May 2015, at 4:56 pm, Carl Clifford <> wrote:
>>>
>>> Out of idle curiosity, I typed my postcode (2263, on NSW Central Coast)
>>> into BirData, just to see what it would throw up. I am going to have to
>>> start looking a bit harder around my patch, as I have obviously been
>>> missing a few cracking birds. Some I have missed are; Red Junglefowl,
>>> Cotton Pygmy Goose, Baudin's Black Cockatoo, and Common Greenfinch, to name
>>> a few. Has anyone else on the list looked up their postcode in BirdData to
>>> see if there are any "ghost" species lurking?
>>>
>>> Carl Clifford
>>>
>>>
>>>
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