Re: [cobirds] Re: History - Old bird checklists

I completely agree with Patrick. I'd add a story about a long time Tennessee birder and big time world birder who moved to Florida about 7 years ago. Before Terry Witt moved, he threw nearly 50 years of birds records in the trash. Nothing is in EBird or Avisis or archived in any way. He told me he threw everything out because he didn't think anyone would want them. Such a shame. Unfortunately he passed away about a month ago. 

Even if the records are in EBird, archiving the original field notes would be worth the effort. 

My 2 cents. 

Scott Somershoe 

Littleton CO

Green big year stands at 253 species. Zzzzzzzz. 

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On Sep 6, 2021, at 9:23 AM, Patrick O'Driscoll <patodrisk@gmail.com> wrote:



I wholeheartedly agree with Chuck.

Pre-eBird paper lists are important artifacts of our birding history, especially as so much of our recordkeeping has shifted to digital.

And Jeff, your remarks are a great reminder for all of us to archive our earlier lists on eBird.

Those of us eBirders who regularly visit Denver City Park know something about this.

Sometime after the Cornell Lab invented eBird, a prominent Colorado birder who visited City Park regularly in his youth transferred all of his written birding lists from there into the database.

Between 1947 and 1950, young Hugh Kingery recorded hundreds of visits  and sightings in the park.

eBird tells us now that Hugh was responsible for the first 80 species sightings in Denver City Park, all in that period. (More than three decades later, in 1987, he added two more first sightings.)

Hugh's 320 "Denver City Park" eBird lists far outnumber those of the rest of us.

His is a shining example of the importance of saving all of our sightings to the Cornell Lab's brilliant invention.

Good eBirding!

Patrick O'Driscoll

Denver

On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 7:48 AM Charles Hundertmark <chundertmark8@gmail.com> wrote:

Veteran field ornithologists like Hugh should check into archiving their old checklists at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. It's an excellent archive housing the records of several of the prominent field ornithologists from Colorado's past.

Chuck Hundertmark

Lafayette, CO

On Sep 6, 2021, at 7:41 AM, Jeff Percell <jeff.percell@gmail.com> wrote:

You should add the checklists onto eBird, so that everyone can benefit from the data.

https://support.ebird.org/en/support/solutions/articles/48001158707-get-started-with-ebird

Thanks,

Jeff Percell

Erie, CO

On Sunday, September 5, 2021 at 4:58:36 PM UTC-6 ouz...@aol.com wrote:

Does anyone know of a place that might have an interest in saving old bird checklists? I have a packet several inches thick of everything from Chatfield to Rock Creek to Durango to Bonny and I'm ready to give them away or to toss them.

Hugh Kingery

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