3567-3571 County Road 21, Stuyvesant, New York, US (42.43, -73.728), Columbia, New York, US Jan 15, 2021 4:47 PM - 5:16 PM Protocol: Traveling 6.46 mile(s) Checklist Comments: Dusk, temperature

2249 New York 203, Chatham, New York, US (42.375, -73.629), Columbia, New York, US Jan 15, 2021 3:43 PM - 4:16 PM Protocol: Traveling 3.02 mile(s) Checklist Comments: Overcast temperature 41F

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Awww - gowan That EGGO was a wild fly in (origin uncertain) until it was taken down by an eagle. Those things should be entered in CBCs and the data taken for what they're worth. Feral populations

As compiler of both the club’s Century Run and two local CBC’s, I can give you the following rules. For CBC’s, we would count these species, since they were seen. It would be with a nod and a

I spotted one male Bufflehead among 40 plus common goldeneyes and several of both species of mergansers. This was from the dirt section of N River Rd in Ft Edward. There may have been more. I didn’t

We have an outdoor sound monitor (re-purposed baby monitor) here in Colonie to listen to bird sounds. Around 2:30 this afternoon we could hear an odd finch-sound from the yard. Went outside and

Alan, interesting, thanks! So I guess they were rather local populations. The Northern Bobwhites here were the only ones I have ever seen. Clear skies, Alan

Alan - I’m thinking back to the time that we created that checklist for Five Rivers. A neighboring landowner raised and released these two species for hunting and dog training purposes back then.

I should have done this earlier, but I just thought to look at my yard list. It's actually a Bird Checklist for Five Rivers Environmental Education Center published in 1983. I note that both

Like Zach said, “countability” for competitive listing is anentirely different matter from the citizen science purposes of eBird. I’m not acompiler for any of the local competitive birding

I cannot speak for CBCs but eBird reviewers don’t generally use countability to evaluate whether a sighting can be confirmed. (There are exceptions to this, like when a sighting is rejected by a

With regard to CBCs and eBird – NOT the Breeding Bird Atlas – isn’t it presumptuous to assume that the observer will know that a Ring-Necked Pheasant isn’t “countable”? I saw my first

In 2020, the first year of the third New York State BreedingBird Atlas, a “remarkably scant population of volunteer observers” of over1,500 individuals submitted over 100,000 checklists that

The breeding bird atlas is not “ completely based on observational data by a remarkably scant population of volunteer observers.” There is a concrete set of requirements for the completion of

Could you define "locally"? I'd love to see the data that supports this conclusion. The Breeding Bird Atlas is completely based on observational data by a remarkably scant population of volunteer

Hi Tristan, I really like your examples. This academic inquiry is made richer for us by your logic. As for Mountain lions, wow.... there is a beast that has an entirely different and very complex

Except we do have “real info”. According to maps availablethrough the New York State Breeding Bird Atlas III portal on eBird, there wereonly three confirmed instances of Ring-necked Pheasant

We actually do. It is called the breeding bird atlas. There are no sustainable wild populations of Pheasants locally anymore. Will Raup Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

I completely agree with Tom's sentiments on this topic. At best, we have no real info on "wild" breeding vs non-breeding populations. They should be counted as similarly as Starlings. Scott