Date: 5/7/26 8:01 am From: Matt Lawing (via carolinabirds Mailing List) <carolinabirds...> Subject: Re: Faked ebird checklists Watauga Co.
It's been flagged as a lifebuilding checklist. The kind you are supposed to
put all your birds with unknown dates on with a 1/1/1900 date
On Thu, May 7, 2026 at 9:55 AM David Campbell <carolinabirds...>
wrote:
> We did actually find two Greater White-Fronted Geese near where he
> reported them in Cleveland County back in February, but the Cleveland
> County rarity alert emails reports often just say something like" singing
> at my house", not readily verified. [In fact, the Greater White-Fronted
> geese were hanging out with Snow and Ross's as well as Canadas, for a
> rather remarkable Piedmont goose set.]
>
> 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:
>>
>>
>> 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:
>>
>>> 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)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>
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> Department of Natural Sciences
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>
