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BirdData: some problems?

To: Carl Clifford <>
Subject: BirdData: some problems?
From: Peter Shute <>
Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 17:58:08 +1000
According to http://birdata.com.au/help_lists.vm, it's displaying data for the 
entire 1 degree x 1 degree grid cell that postcode falls within. How far is 
that where you live? Does that explain the anomalies?

Peter Shute

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> On 7 May 2015, at 4:56 pm, Carl Clifford <> wrote:
> 
> Out of idle curiosity, I typed my postcode (2263, on NSW Central Coast) into 
> BirData, just to see what it would throw up. I am going to have to start 
> looking a bit harder around my patch, as I have obviously been missing a few 
> cracking birds. Some I have missed are; Red Junglefowl, Cotton Pygmy Goose, 
> Baudin's Black Cockatoo, and Common Greenfinch, to name a few. Has anyone 
> else on the list looked up their postcode in BirdData to see if there are any 
> "ghost" species lurking?
> 
> Carl Clifford
> 
> 
> 

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