Reporting Koels - why?

["wallaces" <>]

As a relatively new contributor to Canberrabirds and as one of the people who obviously annoyed Alistair, might I say that what is not interesting to some is interesting to others.  I would much rather people report what they see rather than assume it is not of interest.  I am not keen on the suggestions of sending personal emails to a person who will summarise the data as this takes away the most important reason for me to use Canberrabirds - locating birds that are of interest to me and keeping in touch with developments such as the nesting of the spoonbills. While Koels are not anything special for me (I lived on the NSW north coast for many years) they are an interesting bird for Canberra and I hope that reporting their location can help others (such as Rod) to locate them. 

 

I encourage people to use Canberrabirds freely.  While I am not interested in a large number of the reports and discussions, filtering them out is a small price to pay for the information which is of interest to me. We cannot expect everyone to be interested in every report and it would be a shame to have people reduce their reporting because they assume that some people may not find it interesting.

 

Steve