[NatureNS] RE Varied Thrush, or what to reporet and what not to report

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Ulli

With your words so well chosen and expertly delivered who could disagree!

Tom K
Canso



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <uhoeger@dal.ca>
To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 10:02 PM
Subject: [NatureNS] RE Varied Thrush, or what to reporet and what not to 
report


> Hello,
>
> I feel it is necessary to set a few things straight -at least from my 
> point of view- that came up
> in postings made in the past few days here on NatureNS.
>
> 1) NatureNS is not a public website, its a mailing list people have to 
> subscribe to. Even if
> everyone can sign up it is not what I consider public.  That posts to 
> NatureNS are harvested
> (poached as I see it) for a web site is a totally different story.
>
> 2) As one of the seasonal editors of NSBirds, the record keeping 
> publication of bird sightings
> in our province for over 50 years, I want to point out that NatureNS as 
> well as NSRBA are
> currently the most important sources of information about the whereabouts 
> and well being of
> "birds of interest". Mailed in sightings are increasingly less common in 
> our days, and the entry
> form on the Bird Society website is not used by a lot of people to enter 
> observations and data
> on a regular basis.  If someone is considering to hold back future 
> sightings and observations
> to avoid the possibility of subsequent interogation and unwanted visits of 
> "keen" birders
> providing us with information via the Bird Society's web site is an 
> option. The delay of several
> month between sighting and publication in NSBirds and the limitation of 
> the spatial
> description to community level (e.g. Dartmouth, HRM) almost ensures 100% 
> privacy if this is
> a concern. We need your information!
>
> 3) As a birder I am interested to learn about birds visiting the province 
> and how they manage
> here over time.  Even if I don't get the chance to the see most of them. 
> Hosts of uncommon
> and rare birds are in general very welcoming if it comes to accommodate 
> birders interested in
> seeing their guests. Maybe we got spoiled by this wide spread generosity 
> and hospitality and
> take it now for granted? But not everybody is equaliy keen to have his 
> home or neighborhood
> swarming with birders, and I understand and respect that exact locations 
> are held back for
> this reason. And no, I don't feel like a donkey with a carrot dangling in 
> front of me that I can't
> reach, even if I get to see daily updates.  This may be a bit harder to 
> accept for those that
> miss out on another tick or have to wait a bit longer to add a lifer to 
> their line-up.
>
> Observers, please keep the reports flowing with as much or as little 
> detail and frequency as
> you consider appropriate using NatureNS (preferably), NSRBA, or the above 
> mentioned
> NSBS website. On the receiving end we should be content with what we get. 
> In the past our
> birding community has done very well with what we have in place to spread 
> information fast
> and reliably. It would be a shame if NatureNS would become silent and we 
> go back to
> learning about "good" sightings from past June when the Fall issue of 
> NSBirds with the birds
> of Summer gets published several month later -if sightings are reported at 
> all.
>
> Ulli 

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