Serious first, fun second.
Liz Day
beebuzz at kiva.net
Wed Jul 25 19:10:50 EDT 2001
>> Are you sure the Lorquin's Admirals were not California Sisters?
>...there are some stiff requirements among birders to insure proper
identifications..... I often see bogus listings in their unilateral
"sightings" of leps.
Ron, you are correct, but incomplete. I read a daily birding list that
consists mostly of reports of sightings just like this. As far as I know,
the information posted to the list does not become any kind of official
scientific record. Anyone, including beginners who think they saw a
condor in their back yard, can post their reports. But the official
counts, surveys, and records are not based on internet postings. I would
hope that no serious scientific work on leps would be either.
>How many of these have now, or will, become dots on maps?
As someone who is making maps with dots, I figure that if the map author is
careless enough to accept inadequate evidence of a species' presence, the
fault is with the author.
Liz
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