There is also the point that there are several online recording services
here and whilst I believe you can send Eremaea data to the Atlas it is not
as far as I know automatic - I am not sure what Birdpedia does. Hence my
earlier comment that to get a full year list you would need to scan all
three databases plus the birdlines and Birding-Aus (where you are much more
likely to find the rarities noted!)
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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