G'day Graeme & other readers
From gleaning all the swift & swiftlet records I can from as many
sources I can, I am finding that e-bird often has 2-5 records of the
same group trip, and I am finding that some of these are being
filtered out by the Aussie atlas but but not all. biocache can have
even more duplicate entries as it takes from numerous sources, and I
spend much time amalgamating duplicate entries. It gets very
frustrating.
Ideally it would be best to have just one program to send Aussie data
to. But little in this world is ideal.
Please do not give up placing your observations in one atlas or
another, and PLEASE GIVE ONLY ONE DATE & PROVIDE THE NUMBER OF EACH
SPECIES YOU SAW.
E-bird has data from the birdlife atlas and they have really messed
up some of the dates - where a period is given rather a single day.
Cheers & Happy birding
Mike
Just as an aside: I notice on eBird that when browsing recent
entries there are often multiple entries for what appears to be the
same survey or outing. e.g. say a group of 5 observers visit a site
and record 23 species - there are at times five different entries
all for the same 23 species.
I do hope the Atlas moderator ditches 4 of the 5??? or we would
surely be biasing abundance ratios etc. I wonder if that is the case?
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