Dennis,

You must have a special version of the software as mine only works in
US and Canada. So how exactly are you getting HOGO's in Peru?

and mine doesn't list personal locations at all! It has one hotspot
at point no point with 136 species in 3 years and 45 in the last 30
days.

Friends in high places sounds about right! ;-)


Elias Elias
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On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 18:32, Dennis Paulson <dennispaulson at comcast.net> wrote:

> Great fun, I can click on Hudsonian Godwit and see where the nearest records are to me. Well, they're on the coast of Peru, so I guess I won't be using a Google Map to drive there.
>

Many of the localities around Seattle are listed as "Personal
Location." You can find it more or less on the Google Map, but without
a name, you don't know exactly what you are looking for. These
locations say that they may be private homes, and people are assured
privacy by not giving any more information. But I looked at a lot of
these, and some of them were certainly not private homes (for example,
there were three such locations just at Point No Point, and as far as
I know, Vic Nelson is the only birder living there). Are people
entering "personal location" because it's their own special birding
spot that they'd rather not share? If so, why send the records to
eBird? Or is there something I'm missing here? In other words, why so
many "personal locations?" I assume the majority were sent in by
people on this list.
>
> I'd be curious if anyone has any insight into this. I could try to answer questions about the application, but I'm still learning. One of the upgrades they're working on is a feature that will allow submission of records to eBird through BirdsEye.
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