[cobirds] Re: Cobirds vs Ebird Reporting

I also wonder how many people know about CObirds?  There are a lot of birders not subscribed to this or any other group.   CObirds seems to me kind of like an "insider" thing that only people in certain circles know about, and that many are likely to assume is only for use by experts or highly experienced birders to share reports with one another.  Who is really wanted to post here and what is post-worthy?

An advantage of eBird is that you can keep your whole life list there easily and can simply report what you think you saw - it feels a lot more personal and functional for individual use.  Just as phone lines have gone by the wayside, egroups are a little old school today in terms of how people actually use the Internet for social purposes, so using CObirds requires many to take a set of unnatural steps that they wouldn't ordinarily be doing.

Diana Beatty

El Paso

On Friday, October 30, 2015 at 12:53:16 PM UTC-6, Mark wrote:

Recently, I have noticed a trend of good to great chaseable birds not being reported to CObirds but instead just added to the eBird checklist. The reason for the email is that yesterday, a Great-crested Flycatcher was reported from the Denver Botanical Gardens at Chatfield around 8:40 a.m. After looking at the photos attached to the checklist, I'm struggling to rule out a Brown-crested Flycatcher. The problem with this kind of reporting is that you're not hearing about the bird until the next day. A few weeks ago, a Tri-colored Heron was reported to CObirds and many people were able to see the bird before it disappeared the following day. I'm not trying to criticize a person's decision of reporting, because it is ultimately their choice. I'm trying to get a better understanding of why this trend is increasing so rapidly?

Mark Chavez
Lakewood-Green Mtn
http://jaeger29.smugmug.com/

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