The ban on posting photos of the nests. Birds should not be disturbed during the brooding period. Without respecting this simple rule, research loses its value. Thank you very much. Bisogna mettere un’importante regola su iNaturalist Il divieto di postare le foto dei nidi. Non bisogna disturba…

Research value is not in amount of disturbance. There’re many cases where nests are visited for different purposes than just making photos, plus quick photo especially when adults are absent has almost none effect on the brood. I hope iNat will never ban any kind of nature photographs, it makes no s…

I’m guessing that you mean taking photos of nests during the brooding period should be banned, not all photos of nests? I agree that nests should not be disturbed unnecessarily. Still, I’ve certainly posted photos of nests that I’ve found that are unoccupied, or that I stumbled upon while looking fo…

Taking photos of nests is not a disturbance in and of itself. There are many ways of taking photos of nests that cause little to no disturbance, indeed there are certain areas where viewing nesting birds is actually part of a combined conservation/education program (see Audubon Canyon Ranch in Cali…

I don’t know how you could even begin to enforce such a rule. There are so many different variables involved from the behaviour of the observer, to the length of time chicks stay in the nest. Should this photo be banned, taken from 200 meters away https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/7295591 I…

Also, if I’m not mistaken (and I know there’s other theories for this), it was all thanks to citizen scientists monitoring bald-eagle nests that we were able to notice the prejudice caused by DDT regarding the hatching of eggs. If it wasn’t for that we might have noticed it too late. I’m sure that…

Species whose nests are subject to disturbance should have their locations obscured. You can do so manually but many sensitive species are automatically obscured. Otherwise, I agree with the gist of the previous comments.

I understand your concern for the safety of nesting birds, and it is a valid issue. However, in my experience, the vast majority of nest destruction and disturbance I’ve observed has come from people NOT knowing where the nest is, what it looks like, or how to avoid destroying it while doing other a…

Buon giorno Roby, Non credo che imporre una regola di questo tipo servirebbe a qualcosa. Avere un dialogo costruttivo su questo tema e’ probabilmente piu’ efficace. Pero’ suggerirei di non rendere pubblico i siti dei nidi. I don’t think that imposing a ban on nest photography will be very helpful.…

I honestly do not think your reasoning for this is actually reasonable. Not to be rude or anything. But if you’re saying iNat should ban all photos of nests, then…that means all the people posting photos of ant colonies will technically not be allowed to do that anymore. And I am bringing this up, …

[image] earthknight: There are certain protocols that need to be followed when taking photos of nests. These have been gone over in quite a bit of detail in a recent post on this specific topic: Bird nesting and photography I recommend the mods merge this post with that one in order to avoid …

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