Observation record submission - what is good practice?

[Julian Robinson <>]

Thanks Jack for the response. I appreciate that I have inadvertently
stirred up more than I intended in putting several people to significant
effort, however am sure it will be well applied and hopefully lead to a
useful increase in reports from us relative newbies.  

In the meantime and before the well-considered official Instructions
arrive, I'd really value a less-considered opinion on the currently
relevant question that motivated my post .  Should I report the
Cuckoo-shrikes and Grey Fantail and any other relatively unexciting birds
(but which are my first sightings for this season) in the form of
incidental records?  This is how I interpreted your G-gang column
but I wanted to check if my interpretation was correct.

Julian


At 09:21 PM 31/07/2007, Jack and Andrea Holland wrote:
> Dear subscribers, in response to
> Julian's, John's and Con's requests, Barbara Allan from the Rarities
> Panel and Records Management Team has offered to draw up some
> "instructions" which I will present briefly for the first time
> at next week's COG meeting.  It is intended that, following their
> acceptance, these will be posted on the COG web site.
>
> As the person responsible for triggering these requests, I trust this
> will be a good outcome.  Part of the motivation for including it in
> my what to watch out for this month column this week was witnessing how
> valuable these COG records and our database are in relation to State of
> the Environment reporting etc.
>
> Jack Holland