I’ve noticed many forum users seem to like eBird just as much as iNat, and often post bird sightings on both. Personally, I only tried it after having used iNat for a while and found it much more limiting and less fun to use. What are your thoughts on them? My opinions here: eBird: Pros Checklis…

These two databases have different purposes. No one would suggest that ebird is the place to post individual bird sightings you made that you thought were interesting or you got a good photo. iNat is great for that. But I don’t think you should post 2346 records of Snow Goose on iNat because tha…

[image] jasonhernandez74: I am saying that observations with no media at all – neither picture nor sound – are indistinguishable from fiction. I could theoretically post a Bigfoot observation (with a placeholder since it has no recognized taxonomic name), with no picture or sound. Who would beli…

[image] sandboa: A vouchered record can just as easily be fiction It is less likely to be, because of the added work to make/find it. And it’s more easily found and dealt with on iNat through reverse image searching, flags, and DQA votes.

Is it though? I’m not convinced that there are more fake records in eBird than on iNat. If I had to guess iNat has more fake records, because there are so many students using it just to get through a class. eBird is really only used by people who know what they’re doing.

It could certainly be true that iNat has more false records, but the point I’m trying to make is that they’re a lot easier to find. A screenshot observation or location that doesn’t seem right can be a clue, then a reverse image search turns up a copyright violation, and the observation becomes Casu…

They’re far easier to find out, but when a stringer creates a list of common species nobody can check if it’s right or wrong, birding community have a lot of bad eggs, and mostly they’re not changing as people, while students will grow up and can become valuable iNat users with all copyrighted image…

[image] raymie: Is it though? I’m not convinced that there are more fake records in eBird than on iNat. I think there are definitely more ‘fake’ records on eBird than on iNat; not intentionally fake ones, but ‘accidental’ fakes, i.e. innocent misidentifications. How many thousands (tens of th…

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That’s a really good point. Just consider the amount of times bird IDs, even with a photo, have to be corrected on iNat. On ebird there is no possibility of correction when there are no photos and nobody will ever know if misidentification occurred. ebird generally does have more birders who are alr…

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raymie May 15, 2021, 5:58pm 81

A lot of people use shortened versions of their name or a last initial to hide their identity, otherwise you can always be an “Anonymous eBirder” .

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