Date: 12/9/25 9:13 am From: Steve <sshultz...> Subject: Re: Reminder: Fall season reports for Chat Briefs
Thanks Harry!
I’ll also send out my semi-regular reminder that submitting a report of a rare bird to eBird does not mean that it was confirmed. If not confirmed, it will not be visible to Harry.
So far as I know, the only way to tell if your report was confirmed is to search for that species in the explore feature of eBird and then look for a record matching your submission on the map feature.
Of course you may have noted the confirmed status during the period it appeared on a rare bird report. If you saw that, no need to confirm via maps.
Steve Shultz
Chat editor
> On Dec 9, 2025, at 11:45 AM, Harry LeGrand <carolinabirds...> wrote:
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> Fellow birders,
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> Now that the four-months-long Fall Season is over (August-November), as The Chat's Briefs for the Files editor, I would like to hear from any of you who have not posted important records for the season already on eBird. The great majority of the Briefs over the past decade have come from the editor perusing the eBird database, species by species, and picking out the most signficant reports. This is tedious (looking at over 400 Species Maps!), but I need to wait for a few more days to start so that any and all rarity sightings (as seen on the Carolina Bird Club Sightings page) have hopefully been approved as valid. But, a few of you might have some important records that were not on eBird, so please let me know what notable birds you saw.
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> What I most want to hear from folks is their observations, or more likely their LACK of observations/records, of "winter finches". A couple of months ago we thought there might well be a good fall or winter season for Pine Siskins, maybe Red-breasted Nuthatches, and perhaps a few Evening Grosbeaks and Red Crossbills (away from the mountains). Yes, the less erratic Purple Finches have been trickling into the Carolinas in the last month, but the others seem to be nearly lacking -- at least as I write this on December 9!
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> I'd like to hear from folks by December 20, if possible. Again, almost all of you submit eBird reports, so those data are already available to me on the website, and so a big "Thank You" for posting results.
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> Harry LeGrand, Briefs for the Files editor
> Raleigh
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