Not part of local biodiversity but also not obviously captive

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Please link similar discussions here if there are any.

I recently came across an observation depicting a species (Macaw in Hong Kong) that does not belong to the region’s natural biodiversity. However, the geographic location and photo details suggests it’s not exactly a captive specimen either, and more likely just a pet that has escaped/released/taken out for a fly (walk).

How should such observations be handled, where it’s sort of in between wild and captive? Is there an observation field for “released pet”?

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In the current system, if it’s not under human control it would be considered “wild” i.e. not captive. There’s a long, staff-initiated discussion about this here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/options-for-the-best-way-to-handle-non-established-obs-e-g-escaped-released-pets/16684

(I’ll close this topic soon to avoid splintering the discussion)

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