For what it's worth, Julian, (and I await the official instructions with
interest) I submit most of my records as 'incidental' on the basis that I
do not usually undertake any systematic or comprehensive survey of an area
when I go out birding. Even if I record and report all species/numbers
seen for a particular area, I still regard that as 'incidental' because I
am only recording them randomly as I wander around a particular area.
Also, I'm not consistent with what records I enter in the database -
sometimes I record and enter all species seen in a particular area, but
other times I only bother to submit records for what I consider 'more
interesting' species, eg, at Newline, I might record the Brown Treecreepers
and Jacky Winters but not bother to record the Magpies and Galahs. If you
feel inclined to submit a record, I would just do so.....says somebody who
is not very good about submitting records!!
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:59:11 +1000, Julian Robinson
<> wrote:
> 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
>
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