Date: 1/28/25 3:21 pm From: Alan Mapes via groups.io <alanmapes...> Subject: Re: [hmbirds] TABG update
Hi Heidi - I’ve been able to type in 1 Taiga and it comes right up.
On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM Heidi via groups.io <hocka1=
<gmail.com...> wrote:
> Could someone please explain to me how to submit the Taiga to ebird?
> A private reply can be sent to:
> <Hocka1...>
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> Since it’s not a common species around here, how/where do I enter it in my
> checklist?
> Also when I enter Hudson Crossing as the location it brings up
> Schuylerville and what look like some coordinates. Is this acceptable to
> use?
> I’ve submitted lists to ebird before but never a unique one like this.
>
> Thanks for the help and thankyou to Karen, Zach and everyone who updated
> on the bird.
> I’m excited to have this on my LifeList.
> Heidi Klinowski
> Troy NY
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> On Jan 28, 2025, at 2:20 PM, zach schwartz-weinstein via groups.io
> <zachsw...> wrote:
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> As of 2:09 PM today, the Taiga Bean-Goose has not been relocated. If it
> has moved on (and only time will tell) then maybe this is a good time to
> thank Karen Randall for finding this amazing goose (incredibly at the exact
> same location that New York’s first Tundra Bean-Goose was identified in
> 2021), as well as John Hershey and John McKay for their subsequent
> relocations of this incredible vagrant and their photographs, which helped
> to clinch the ID.
>
> At present, the Taiga Bean-Goose has been recorded on 642 eBird
> checklists. That includes repeat viewings and multiple checklists to get
> the bird in both counties, but still, a lot of people have been able to see
> this goose, with some traveling very long distances to do so.
>
> Zach Schwartz-Weinstein
> 203 500 7774
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