Gail/All,
If someone has precise coordinates for pelagic sightings, we hope they will use them. If not, and that person is in Maryland, we hope they'll use "Maryland Pelagic (General)". In most cases, I expect these reports to be filed as "Incidental" due to a lack of known effort information.
Thanks to others for the good questions and useful replies. While I'm writing, I'd like to take a moment to thank Maurice Barnhill for contributing a wealth of precisely mapped pelagic data to the MD eBird effort. Historical data is extremely valuable to this project, and to have carefully mapped historical pelagic data is especially so. Thanks, Maurice, for having the foresight and dedication to collect that great data, and then the generosity to share it with the community. Much appreciated! Thanks also to Rob Ostrowski for his continued leadership in historical Maryland data collection!
For anyone who has access to collections of historical data and is interested in contributing it to Maryland eBird, please get in touch! For those of you who have recently shared data or started historical data entry, thank you!
Good birding!
Bill
Bill Hubick
Pasadena, Maryland
http://www.billhubick.com
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> From: Gail B. Mackiernan %3Ckatahdinss%40comcast.net%3E <>
>To:
>Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 7:32 AM
>Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Maryland Pelagic Data in eBird
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>What about folks like us that go on commercial cruises solely for the purpose of birding (well, we do eat but...)? We have spent months at sea chasing seabirds in most areas of the globe and these are, IMHO, reportable pelagics. Sometimes importantly so, e.g. the 25 Solander's Petrels we had on our September cruise which were first for Alaska and perhaps for USA.
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>Of course it is important to get the position etc. of the ship at times of sightings to ensure one is actually in Maryland (or where ever).
>
>Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper
>Colesville, MD
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