After sending my earlier post I went through more of the site. It didn't take long to come to realize that there is a lot of chaff on the site. It has potential, but unless someone wants to go through and clean up the captions and identifications, there is going to be a ton of absolutley useless information on the site as it is. It looks like a lot of folks have gone through their old photos and sent them in with labels like "unknown bird on Laysan Island, NW Hawiian Islands". If they want serious birders and photographers to submit photos, in my opinion I think that they're going to have to get more serious about the site as a resource. I'm sure that they can get lots of volunteers to help 'figure this out'.
 Edward Boyd
Westminster, MD 




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From: Gail Mackiernan <>
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Sent: Fri, March 5, 2010 10:38:16 AM
Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Seeking Seabird Photos for NOAA Photo Library

Actually the second photo (#651) on Page 1 is also wrong, it is a BB Albie,
not Gray-headed. 

Gail Mackiernan
Colesville, MD

on 03/05/2010 10:20 AM, Ed Boyd at  wrote:

> Tracy,
> 
> Is someone going to go through the site and correct all of the mistakes
> and ensure that the birds and animals displayed are labeled correctly? I
> just skimmed through a couple of pages to see what's there and
> immediately found on page 8 Northern Fulmars identified as Glaucous
> Gulls. I only looked at less than 1/2 dozen pages and maybe a dozen
> photos when I found this error.
> 
> Ed Boyd
> Westminster, MD
>