Hi David,
Thanks for the links about breeding codes. I’ll have a look. I hadn’t seen that. (Clearly not written for Australia but that is OK.)
About: We are long past the time of writing obs on sheets of paper that volunteers then need to enter into databases, duplicating the effort.
So how does that work?
When doing several surveys on the one day, it is way too difficult and unreliable to remember all those species and numbers and times, separately, for all day until you get home to a computer to put it onto a
computer (that is for those of us that have a computer) and if you don’t use the printed sheet with all that stuff set out you are wasting time in the field scribbling notes onto pieces of paper and would inevitably miss out on species without seeing the names
in a list. The only way I know how to do it is fill in the data sheet at the end of each survey before going on to the next site.
Philip
From: David McDonald (personal) [
Sent: Sunday, 25 October 2015 8:53 PM
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Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Choosing the best breeding code on COG data sheets
Hi, eBird deals with this matter systematically and easily.
The eBird breeding behaviour (not breeding as such) codes are here:
http://help.ebird.org/customer/en/portal/articles/1006850-breeding-codes-behavior-codes?b_id=1928&t=412380 . They map nicely to the codes used in COG's database.
I suggest that the best way to submit bird observation data to COG is via Eremaea eBird
http://ebird.org/content/australia/?siteLanguage=en .
We are long past the time of writing obs on sheets of paper that volunteers then need to enter into databases, duplicating the effort.
David
On 24/10/2015 11:10 PM, Philip Veerman wrote:
Today among several breeding records I obtained, are these two that raise very similar questions. Both nests were about 2 metres above ground.
1 - On McQuoids Hill: A pair of Striated Thornbills moving around a tree with beak full of insects going towards a dense patch of leaves, that patch on examination contained a typical thornbill nest and buzzing sounds heard as adults entered
nest and came out without beak full of insects. I don’t recall having seen a Striated Thornbill nest before.
2 - On Mt Taylor: A pair of Weebills moving around a tree with beak full of insects going towards a dense patch of leaves, that patch on examination contained a typical weebill nest (I have seen several) and adults appeared to want to
go to the nest but wouldn’t go in whilst I was close enough to observe (about 2 metres away). This one on Mt Taylor would be easy to find again.
What I really have is a CF but that is not very useful to indicate an actual nest found, or an ON, although I think I can do better than that. I recorded both as NY as that appears logical, even though I didn’t see chicks in either and
I infer them at hearing sounds at one. Of course if one adult feeds another at a nest that would be wrong. But I don’t think they do.
Philip
