Weekend and Ebird Updates

MY EBIRD

It's that time of year before Spring starts- time to clean up data and systems.  Thanks to the help of Dave and Sue while in Thailand and more so to Jaffa for more detailed instructions I managed to move my world list from IGoTerra to Ebird. Still missing a few but I'll pick away at finding the discrepancy between my IGoTerra list of 3571 and my Ebird list of 3545- not bad a difference considering the scale of the operation! 

Roger popped down this weekend but what with Valentine's Day rituals and awful weather today, didn't get out birding at all this weekend. Worst still it's half term this week and the whole week is full up of work, family visits, zoo visits, birthdays (Holly's 40th) and waterparks. At least it will be fun albiet rather unproductive.  

Apart from a few Chestnuts and Depressaria daucellas the constant rain and rather cold evenings have been pretty unproductive for moths on several nights I tried. However Friday night was a bit better with 2 Early moths, Hebrew Character, Acleris sp, Depressaria daucella and Chestnut. 

So basically it's all been desk top this weekend. I've also been picking away at the next couple of papers for Dutch Birding- one on the Paddyfield Pipit we found in Oman and a Corvo 20 year reveiw paper. 

Here's a link to my Ebird world list HERE. It will be easier to keep track (as Ebird live updates from the field) on my life goal to get to 5000 world species eventually. However world listing is not the main focus but more so on our exploration projects and trying to discover interesting and rare records. One of the most exciting excercises was uploading all my Ghana data to get my Ghana bird  list HERE which is 458 which is the highest number from any one country for me. Hope to add more to that next month. Also meanwhile the I-Naturalist validation has been coming along with around 200 butterflies and moth species identified for Ghana HERE (some stunning species in there!) and slowly getting some ids on the West Papua leps HERE. I know from Sue that we've already had a few firsts for I-Nat from West Papua which is pretty impressive considering the scale of that database now. 

Now I'm all up to date with the Ghana records we (Kev, me, Robert and Isaac) can hit the ground running on next month's visit and live update/populate Ebird and I-Nat which will be a useful way of referencing identifications and setting targets. The general objective is eventually to get more skilled and focused in our exploration to find some good records. In terms of our other projects (in Bulgaria, Azores and UK) the scale of biodiversity out there is off the scale so a much more difficult mission.