Hi James,
Thanks for the explanation. Gremlins get in all systems. Hope the sorting out
is not too problematical.
Carl Clifford
> On 8 May 2015, at 8:22 am, James O'Connor <>
> wrote:
>
> Hi all, thanks for raising this. Turns out it's a technical problem with the
> postcodes function, rather than spurious sightings. It wouldn't show up on a
> data extraction so the researchers are safe. We're looking into it, and might
> need to take this function down for a while.
>
> All the best,
> James
>
>
> James O'Connor
> Head of Research
> BirdLife Australia
>
>> On 8 May 2015, at 7:16 am, Carl Clifford <> wrote:
>>
>> Not really. Even by taking in of the whole 111Km x 111Km square, there is no
>> way that some of the species could be sighted there. Obviously, there are
>> well meaning, but ornithologically deficient people out there who post to
>> BirdData, sightings that are furphys. Pity, because the database is used for
>> researchers, and junk data gives junk results, as we know from the first law
>> of computing, GIGO.
>>
>> Carl Clifford
>>
>>
>>> On 7 May 2015, at 5:58 pm, Peter Shute <> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>>> 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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