Furthermore of course many rarities are only "officially" accepted quite
some time after they are seen, so may well not make into the report for the
year in which they were seen.
2010/1/1 Chris Sanderson <>
> Hi Martin,
>
> This is just a personal observation that in this country most twitchers are
> terrible at actually submitting their sightings. There are also a lot of
> people who assume "someone else will submit the sighting" and so no one
> does. I have in mind an occasion where a Painted Snipe was being seen
> every
> day by a number of birders and yet there was only one record of that bird
> in
> the Atlas after several weeks. If you feel you fall into either category,
> I'd urge you to sign up to be an Atlasser and start submitting sightings!
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 2:09 PM, martin butterfield <
> >wrote:
>
> > G'day Chris
> >
> > I have been off this list for a few years so may have missed an earlier
> > debate, but I was intrigued by your comment that " ...it would be
> extremely
> > unlikely to include rarities unless someone actually atlassed them, ...".
> I
> > am assuming that "atlassed" means submitted a record to the atlas
> project.
> > If a record was officially recognised as a rarity why would it *not *be
> > atlassed?
> >
> > Happy New Year to all.
> >
> > Martin Butterfield
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Chris Sanderson <
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Laurie,
> >>
> >> BA would have this information at their fingertips (very easy to pull
> from
> >> the Atlas I think). I can't recall the figure being quoted at any
> stage,
> >> and it would be extremely unlikely to include rarities unless someone
> >> actually atlassed them, so it wouldn't be a complete list anyway.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Chris
> >>
> >> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 8:41 AM, L&L Knight <
> >> >wrote:
> >>
> >> > It is interesting to see that BRBC maintains lists of all species seen
> >> in
> >> > the UK in each year. Does BA or another organisation keep similar
> >> records
> >> > for Australia?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
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