Date: 11/20/24 2:26 pm From: Gary Bletsch via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: [Tweeters] eBird question
Dear Tweeters,
The annual taxonomic update of eBird was completed a few weeks ago. A glitch appeared in my eBird account during the weeks-long period of the update, and, unlike in previous years, the glitch (or discrepancy) has continued, even though eBird has announced that the update is complete.
A week and a half ago or so, I wrote to eBird using their "contact us" form, but, as often happens, they have not answered. Maybe they'll "get around to it."
I have been wondering if any other birders have noticed a discrepancy such as the one described below.
There are three obvious places where one's life-list total appears on eBird. By going to "My eBird," one's life-list total appears in two places on that page. Near the top of the "My eBird" page, the number appears under "Species observed." Way down near the bottom of the page, there is a section labelled "Species by major region." That section has a list of such regions, starting with "World," and each region has a number associated with it. Finally, one can also see one's eBird life list by clicking on "Profile"; one is then presented with a map of the world, with one's life list prominently displayed near the top-left corner.
Here is the problem. There are two different totals shown for my world life list. That's not possible. If one is sticking to just one world checklist of bird species, such as the one that eBird uses, then one can have but one unique number for one's life list. In my case, I see the number 4051 at the top of the page, and the number 4052 at the bottom. The number shown on the profile is 4051. Oddly, if I click on the number 4052, I am taken to a list that has 4051 species on it!
I find this irksome, and would love to know whether anyone else has observed this glitch.
I return home from Bolivia in a couple of days. I saw 361 species in two and a half weeks. 84 of those were lifers...the glitch was happening before I started ticking lifers, and has continued right through today--when I spotted what will probably be the final lifer of the trip, a pair of Yellow-collared Macaws that I scoped from my ninth-floor room in the Marriott in Santa Cruz de la Sierra!
Yours truly,
Gary Bletsch
PS Best wishes for a safe escape from the Pineapple Express. November, with its deluges and floods, would be one of the very, very few things about Washington that I do not miss.
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