I thought it might have been a longitude issue, but I don't think so.
Taipei is 121.6 degrees east latitude, and Seattle is 122.3 west, which is
close, but the latitudes aren't. Like Matt suggests, probably just a
dropped pin in the wrong spot.
Rick Tyler
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 3:25 PM Matt Bartels <
mattxyz at earthlink.net> wrote:
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The text in Chinese gives a clue:
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Location is Xinhu Elementary [which google maps conveniently places in
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Taibei on Taiwan]
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Comments say 'I often see them'
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Together with the list coming through the Taiwan portal for eBird, I'd say
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someone had an unfortunate location plotting episode
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Matt Bartels
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Seattle, Wa
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-----Original Message-----
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>From: Mark Robinson <blobbybirdman at gmail.com>
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>Sent: Dec 4, 2018 1:26 PM
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>To: Rick Tyler <rhtyler at gmail.com>
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>Cc: Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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>Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Mega sighting on eBird
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>I couldn't decide if the sighting was wrong or the location was wrong
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>On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 at 13:18, Rick Tyler <rhtyler at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Taiwan Blue-Magpie in central Seattle? I wonder if a visitor saw a scrub
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>> jay?
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>> Rick
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>>
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
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>> From: <ebird-alert at cornell.edu>
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>> Date: Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 11:59 AM
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>> Subject: [eBird Alert] Year Needs Alert for King County <daily>
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>> (...)
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>> - Taiwan Blue-Magpie (1 report)
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>>
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>> (...)
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>>
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>> Taiwan Blue-Magpie (Urocissa caerulea) (5)
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>> - Reported Dec 03, 2018 06:40 by ximentin chuang
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>> - 新湖國小, King, Washington
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>> - Map:
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http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=47.610201,-122.323325&ll=47.610201,-122.323325
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>> - Checklist: https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S50411506
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>> - Comments: "經常會看到。"
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>> (...)
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