Platform: website Browser: Chrome URLs: Screenshots: [Capture] Description of problem: Step 1: Go to the species page for Common Cuckoo : https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1907-Cuculus-canorus Step 2: Click on map tab Step 3: click on the record in the central USA. The record is for a diffe…

says common cuckoo for me [image]

it looks like there are lots of problems with that taxon map (besides what’s mentioned here). this particular problem may have been reported before as a problem that is not easily reproduced: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/map-on-taxon-page-sometimes-shows-observations-of-wrong-taxon/8842 . UPDATE…

Unless I’m missing something, the “Common Cuckoo” in the central U.S. just looks like an erroneous ID, not a bug. Obviously it is highly likely to be a Yellow-billed Cuckoo, but I would be hard pressed to ID it from the photo. This just seems like a community ID situation which will resolve itself…

If you click on a record on a taxon page map to open that record preview without jumping to the observation details page, then change the taxon on the taxon page, the original preview will still display on the taxon map.

this is true, but i think that’s a separate problem. see: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/map-on-taxon-page-sometimes-shows-observations-of-wrong-taxon/8842/9 .

That’s not the bug I was commenting on. Yes that is simply a misidentification. however the bug i was raising was that when i clicked on it, it went to a totally different record. It was a casual photoless record imported from an ebird list of a yellow billed cuckoo. As was stated above it seems to…

should we consolidate this with the other bug report? that one is still open: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/map-on-taxon-page-sometimes-shows-observations-of-wrong-taxon/8842 .

Incorrect record appears on taxon page map

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Incorrect record appears on taxon page map

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