Eden Pelagic Trip Report

["Peter Shute (NUW)" <>]

On Monday, November 13, 2006 2:23 PM Simon Mustoe wrote:

>    Short-tailed Shearwater   110698  /  1302
I assume you didn't count 110,698 birds one by one, and that this is the sum 
of several rough estimates of some huge groups and some individually counted 
small groups?  Is this the way it's normally done in birding?  In other 
fields you'd be expected to round the final number in order to avoid 
implying a precision greater than it actually is, e.g 111,000.
What techniques are used to try to improve the accuracy of the large group 
counts?
Peter Shute 

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