Date: 12/31/25 3:30 pm From: Donald Dehm via groups.io <donalddehm...> Subject: Re: [ALbirds] Long-eared Owl
The “Signal” App allows up to 1000 members in a group.
I have created a group called “Alabama Birding Group”.
You can download the App in your phone platform store. You can also use it
on your desktop.
No hate keeping, no disrespect towards others, always put the bird’s well
being first.
Donald
On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 16:41 Grace via groups.io <larwood...>
wrote:
> The gate keeping isn’t eBird.
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> It’s the fact that when I arrived to see the owl - there were a lot of
> people that already knew about it.
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> The info could have been shared safely on an app with instructions rather
> than just the same people who always seem to know …
>
> I’m done. Remove me from the list.
>
> Grace
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> On Dec 31, 2025, at 4:37 PM, Mason Currier via groups.io <masonacurrier=
> <gmail.com...> wrote:
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> That being said, ebird’s never gonna change the status of the Birmingham
> sightings. If someone reports a Long-eared anywhere in the US on ebird,
> that report will always be sensitive.
>
> No one is gate keeping. It’s just how the website we all have chosen to
> use for birding works.
>
> Mason C
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