Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : All browsers
Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.):
Step 1: Drag photos into Upload section
Step 2: Select all
Step 3: Set location using the map
Step 4: See Suggestions for species
Step 5: Suggestions from the wrong regions appear; i.e.; Corvus brachyrhynchos being suggested as a possible ID for a photo of Corvus corone when location is within the U.K.
(I erroneously wrote Corvus corax as the incorrect example because I had English Ravens on the brain, my apologies)
I might be misunderstanding something here, but the example is confusing to me. Ravens do occur in the UK, and they look a lot like normal crows (I mean - they’re both black corvids), so I’d be surprised if they were not one of the suggestions…
Suggestions from the wrong part of the world can sometimes occur when something has been misidentified in the region recently, or when the user does not have their suggestions filtered by ‘seen nearby’.
My apologies that was a mixup as a result of my having English ravens on the brain as I was typing. Never read and write, haha. I have never had incorrect region animals pop up in the drop-down before as far as I know, this really seems to be a recent issue. About to see if it’s still a problem…
Cannot seem to replicate it so I assume it is no longer happening. Perhaps it was fixed. I’ll update here if it reoccurs.
The other example I had was a Mexican house finch suggested for a sighting of a house sparrow in Berkshire! The info about people misidentifying is interesting because I do fairly often have to re-ID sightings of corvids which foreign visitors to Europe have mis-IDed as their home species, especially American ones. I’ll keep an eye out for this and keep closer notes should it reoccur. Thanks for all the help.