eBird says they are working on this issue but it seems they've been saying
that for several years.
On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 6:12 PM HAL MICHAEL <
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In talking with members of the RBC I was asked to report a rare bird that
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I saw. While the "look" was pretty good it wasn't definitive and there
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were no pictures. But they wanted the record, even rejected, because if a
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number of even "rejects" show up in a given area it might be worth a look.
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Hal Michael
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Board of Directors,Ecologists Without Borders (http://ecowb.org/)
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Olympia WA
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360-459-4005
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360-791-7702 (C)
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ucd880 at comcast.net
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> On 02/19/2022 3:22 PM PENNY & DAVID KOYAMA <plkoyama at comcast.net> wrote:
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> I realize one's list is whatever one wants it to be, but isn't it the
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AOU/Cornell gang that determines what is "countable?" You know, after lots
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of meetings, discussions, and voting? Just as with our own State Bird
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Records Committee (BRC), which decides what species will be accepted for
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state records, and which will be rejected for lack of evidence?
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> I know their rules are complicated and changing (e.g., you no longer
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have to strike an exotic species from your list if it has been extirpated
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from the area in which you saw it) but there are rules for uniformity, and,
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I suppose competitive comparisons.
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> So, wouldn't the State BRC be the folks who determine the status of the
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Mandarin Duck? Or does that AOU make the first move?
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> Penny Koyama, Bothell
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> > On 02/19/2022 3:02 PM John Seiferth <john.seiferth at icloud.com> wrote:
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> > > On Feb 19, 2022, at 14:47, HAL MICHAEL <ucd880 at comcast.net> wrote:
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> > > Seems to me, as someone who has worked in natural resource
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management for my career, that I want an all-inclusive list. If it was
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seen and properly identified it gets listed.
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