Obviously incorrect reports on eBird

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Re: Obviously incorrect reports on eBird

Postby paradoxdinokipi » Mon Feb 10, 2025 2:44 am

North Island Brown Kiwi incorrect/captive locales:
https://ebird.org/checklist/S72202175
https://ebird.org/checklist/S168988916
https://ebird.org/atlasnz/checklist/S152368470 <-(lots on this one!)

Birding NZ forum has a url cap so I'll do this post by post?
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Re: Obviously incorrect reports on eBird

Postby paradoxdinokipi » Mon Feb 10, 2025 2:46 am

Removed majority of urls due to forum restrictions but pasting the 'checklist number' into a different tab should still easily bring up the mentioned checklists.

All checklists listed from Tiri-tiri Matangi & Shakespear Ecosanctuary:
https://ebird.org/checklist/S166417276, https://ebird.org/checklist/S102257621, https://ebird.org/checklist/S102313805, https://ebird.org/checklist/S56192198, https://ebird.org/checklist/S96654426, https://ebird.org/checklist/S122592647, https://ebird.org/checklist/S97749865, https://ebird.org/checklist/S196720735,
ebird.org/checklist/S80091768, ebird.org/checklist/S54581369, ebird.org/checklist/S145073689,ebird.org/checklist/S71370948, ebird.org/checklist/S201798959, ebird.org/checklist/S145042667
This one should be flagged as list-building/incorrect locale: ebird.org/checklist/S203306220, possibly this one aswell: ebird.org/checklist/S131050342
Plausible? but could really do with at least some comments: ebird.org/checklist/S28865724, this one also seems suspicious to me but can't say for certain: ebird.org/checklist/S61661857
Report of a nocturnal kiwi at Waipu with the list also not extending into nocturnal hours: ebird.org/checklist/S145612985

Little Spotted Kiwi:
ebird.org/checklist/S167859677 (zoo checklist with zoo birds on there [little spotted being a misid of the zoos NI browns])
ebird.org/checklist/S78757027
ebird.org/checklist/S70453290, I believe the only kiwi on Mana Island known to have been present in 2002 would've been the Little Spotted x Rowi hybrid?

Southern Brown Kiwi:
ebird.org/checklist/S209984373 misidd captive bird?
ebird.org/checklist/S182111368 historical list building checklist, shouldn't be on public output
/ebird.org/checklist/S38388968 list building pelagic kiwi
/ebird.org/checklist/S162539854 pelagic kiwi

Great Spotted Kiwi:
ebird.org/checklist/S163067883 not definite but extremely far south of all other eBird records.

That were the most 'obvious' ones I could find on a quick look through kiwis on eBird, hopefully it was helpful to the reviewers :)
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Re: Obviously incorrect reports on eBird

Postby benackerley » Wed Feb 12, 2025 6:05 pm

Cheers, Ben
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Re: Obviously incorrect reports on eBird

Postby Bobolink » Thu Feb 13, 2025 1:05 am

Grey Wren-Warbler at Haruru Falls S212711126
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Re: Obviously incorrect reports on eBird

Postby Bobolink » Mon Feb 17, 2025 7:39 pm

Flock of black-billed Gulls on Urupukapuka S213936027
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Re: Obviously incorrect reports on eBird

Postby Mike Bickerdike » Tue Mar 18, 2025 7:14 pm

12 Eastern rosella recorded as red-crowned parakeets
https://ebird.org/checklist/S212789954
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Re: Obviously incorrect reports on eBird

Postby Bobolink » Tue Apr 15, 2025 1:57 am

I came across a record of two Pied Oystercatchers H. longirostris (the Australian species) on Enderby I on 15 Jan 2012. "Seen well by numerous observers and guides" Checklist S106529272.
Genuine sighting or misidentification of SIPOs? Lost Gold only mentions SIPOs in the same period
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Re: Obviously incorrect reports on eBird

Postby wazzagonewild » Thu Apr 17, 2025 3:22 pm

Based on the details in the checklist comments, I think the location of this West Coast checklist should be in Canterbury: S188879393.
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Re: Obviously incorrect reports on eBird

Postby paradoxdinokipi » Thu Apr 17, 2025 3:49 pm

https://ebird.org/checklist/S109660059
This checklist desperately needs to be flagged and taken off data input, wrong location, way too long of a checklist and adds a lot of birds to the Manukau City district list that have not been observed there (eg the albatrosses).

https://ebird.org/checklist/S64822470
This checklist although the Stewart Island Shags were 'unconfirmed' the rest of the media for species that clearly weren't observed in Auckland are still up and should also not be in public data output.
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Re: Obviously incorrect reports on eBird

Postby Mike Bickerdike » Tue Apr 22, 2025 3:57 pm

This checklist cannot all be from Ayrlies wetlands, as the distance travelled is nearly 19 km, and many observations are unlikely there: https://ebird.org/checklist/S227692144

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