I had advocated a total pause on publication of all ebird reports to them last week.  This is at least a step in the right direction.  Tweeters should be doing the same.  We can all live without this for awhile.
On Wednesday, April 1, 2020, 08:24:06 AM PDT, <birdmarymoor at gmail.com> wrote:

Tweets -; I've just heard that eBird is going to be hiding reports of rarities, in order to dissuade birders from traveling, and from crowding together trying to relocate them.  They say that low-level county rarities will continue to be public, but County Firsts, state rarities, and certainly any ABA rare birds in the lower-48 states will be quietly hidden from eBird output for the near term. "People are still birding, hopefully all locally.  There will be rare birds found.  But we feel it is in the best interests of everyone to make this appear to be the most boring Spring Migration ever.  Of course, there will be an awful day of reckoning later when we later make these reports publicly visible, and you find out there was a Bristle-thighed Curlew at a reservoir near you, but we all must sacrifice in these difficult times." = Michael Hobbs
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