Before I learned what they were doing, I thought these birds were likely in distress because they were fluffed out with their mouths open and eyes half-closed and/or wings spread, which is how they often look when they have neurological injuries (after colliding with windows, for example), and they were doing it in the full sun, when there are several bird baths nearby.
Would it be worthwhile to start a project of sunbathing birds in case anyone is studying this phenomenon?
I believe that you can start a project on any topic you want, as @fffffffff said. The only challenge I find here is how to define which observations would be part of your project. I don’t know if there is an automatic way to add them to the project (for instance, add all observations with an observation field of “sunbathing”)
There is an option on the main page of the project, usually in search I choose birds and type in words that could be in a description or comments of observations that will fit (in this case that will be something like “sunbathing”).
@scharf ok so I joined the project because I have approximately 1 observation that has a bird sunbathing. The problem is that I have 40 observation’s currently attached to the project and I can’t figure out how to delete them from it…
@orlandob, thanks! I think you got booted from the project when I redid it to make it a traditional project. Please try rejoining now. The change should have removed all the non-sunbathing birds from automatically being added to the project.
