Re: [cobirds] South Platte Reservoir and ABA guidelines

You are correct, Karen.  A Life Bird is a life bird, geography aside.  People start categorizing the geography of the sighting (local patch, county, state, country, area (ABA-area, etc.) if they care to do so.  If use eBird, it will categorize for you if you care to look at the breakdown.  To Mark's point (and you seem to get it) the geographic location of the sighting is often categorized for you using the GPS location of your phone with the eBird app, which may not be where the bird actually is.  There are separate eBird hotspots listed at South Platte Reservoir (and Chatfield for that matter) for each county.  If you report using the Jeffco hotspot, the birds you list should actually be in Jeffco.  Same for the much, much larger Arapahoe County hotspot.

Good birding,

Chip Clouse

Golden

On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 6:30 AM Karen Strong <kstrong1109@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm a relatively new birder, but am I wrong in stating that the very first time I see a bird of a particular species (assuming I properly identify it), that that sighting counts as a "life bird" for me, no matter where the bird is and/or where I am when I see it? 

Having said that, I completely understand that the specific location of the bird (not myself) is of utmost importance when keeping record of birds seen in Jeffco, or Colorado, or whatever geographic location one is concerned with making record of.

To put it another way, I thought life birds simply came down to seeing birds that one had never seen before - separate from location (of oneself or the birds). 

Please tell me if I'm wrong.

Karen
Conifer, CO

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