Your explanation is very clear now, thank you Walt.
Our Union maintains a list of birds seen in the state, they are
classified by frequency of observation. The records committee asks
for casual and accidental sightings as well as extraordinarily early
and late dates. I suppose that there could be projects in the
future that would call for more data such as a breeding bird survey
but that would be something other than a function of the records
committee. The group has posted links to an explanation of
documentation options but I thought I would also offer a paper to
the committee with updated options for the sound submissions. I
appreciate the feedback to my request and credit will mentioned in
my paper.
1GDW
--- In Walter Knapp <>
wrote:
(SNIP)
> The usual temptation is to get into placing a statistical protocol
to
> determine population density. Any way I've seen this done
restricts
> observation time very severely, it skews the very results wanted.
> Generally this is done by folks who are not familiar with the
field
> behavior of all the species involved.
>
> You want people to be able to submit whatever they find regardless
of
> protocol. And have a expectation it will be considered a serious
submission.
(SNIP)
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