Date: 5/7/26 5:21 am From: Dwayne Martin (via carolinabirds Mailing List) <carolinabirds...> Subject: Re: Faked ebird checklists Watauga Co.
I'm going through and hiding from public view many of his list (there are a
lot of them, over 3000 entries). As someone said, he is making the list
mostly with unflagged species, so these list go under the radar. As a
reviewer, that's about all I can do, anything else would be up to eBird
central.
Dwayne
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Dwayne Martin
Hickory, NC
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On Thu, May 7, 2026 at 8:15 AM Patty Masten <carolinabirds...> wrote:
> Take a look at his checklists in his home county of Cleveland. It’s
> ridiculous. We need accurate data in eBird now and in the future, not these
> fake checklists.
>
> Patty Masten
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 7, 2026, at 8:09 AM, Ron Clark <carolinabirds...> wrote:
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> The same is happening in Gaston County. 163 species on two lists.
>
> Ron Clark
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 8:42 PM Derek Aldrich <carolinabirds...>
> wrote:
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>> The NC reviewer can invalidate the checklists. I will forward to them.
>>
>> On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 8:38 PM Christopher Clack <carolinabirds...>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Guy,
>>> This is ridiculous looks like maybe he added every bird that didn't
>>> require a comment. I would Love to get 176 species in 2 and 1/2 hours
>>> though 😂
>>> Chris Clack
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 6, 2026, 8:34 PM <badgerboy...> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anyone using ebird to plan trips or birding locations should be aware
>>>> of
>>>> some faked data showing up for Watauga County from May 4.
>>>>
>>>> https://ebird.org/checklist/S333553214 and
>>>> https://ebird.org/checklist/S333550153 are pretty bizarre. I already
>>>> reported them to Ebird but have no idea whether they actually check
>>>> their email or do anything about such stuff. There have also been
>>>> others
>>>> along these lines by the same ebird user.
>>>>
>>>> Guy (McGrane, Boone NC)
>>>>
>>>>
