Screenshot from a bird identification app with no actual spectrogram

[eyekosaeder]

Edit: My comment is irrelevant to this post because I cannot read, apparently. Haha

@cthawley

If there’s only a screenshot of Merlin and no recording, I think it’s fair to downvote “Evidence of Presence”

I guess there is no better alternative, but I don’t really think this is ideal. Spectograms are evidence. The reason for them not being allowed on iNat is this:

@kueda

Spectrograms are great evidence and really interesting (as are habitat shots, microscopy, most of the other kinds of images that people upload as obs photos), but if we’re not going to distinguish them from photos of organisms then I don’t think people should upload them.

Personally, I disagree with spectrograms being handled differently from other “grey area” photos (such as tracks), but if staff have said that that’s the way it should be, then I don’t want to argue about it.