What if I make a mistake on the GBBC?
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Hey, it happens to all of us. Our fingers move faster than our brains. We space something. We make a mistake when we enter our GBBC sightings or even when identifying a bird. What do you do if you make a mistake on the GBBC?
First of all, the only way we can change the checklist you submit is to delete it or delete the report of a species on it. So, here's what you do:
1) Go ahead and submit a new checklist, but just with the count of the actual bird you saw.
2) Send an email to us (use the contact us link at the bottom of the GBBC page) asking us to delete the mistake. It is best if you can give us the following info--your submission number, your location, the email you used to submit your checklist, and what species to delete.
That's pretty much it. We'll forward your request to our regional reviewers and ask them to delete the mistake from your original checklist.
American Goldfinch counts
We have submitted our numbers to GBBC, and there is always a question as to our accuracy of goldfinch numbers. We have on any given day, 50 to 100 or more at our feeders. Our 25 lb. bucket of cracked sunflower seeds and niger seed barely lasts 2 weeks. This has been a wonderful winter for bird watching, we even saw a bald eagle fly over our home while enjoying a dip in our hot tub.
After looking all over the site, this seems to be the email to use to send corrections: pel27@cornell.edu
E-mail address for mistakes / corrections
The main e-mail address for reporting GBBC errors seems to be citizenscience@audubon.org
I used this address to report a mistake and received a reply the next day.
changing your list
I have been birding for at least 40 of my 50 years. I'm certainly very good with song birds, less so with raptors. My husband has only been birding the last 6 years, since he and I were married, but he has become very good with hawks. As we were doing our count this morning we noticed the birds at the feeder had disappeared and then a red tail sailed over very low and took off to our right and disappeared. Within 15 minutes it happened again and we saw what I thought was the red tail again. Jim went out to check and as he was going out, a handful of feathers floated down and I identified them as blue jay feathers. I was positive the red tail had gotten the jay, but as we stood there, a smaller hawk zoomed past chasing a mourning dove and Jim says it was a sharp shin. He has become very good in identifying hawks, because he enjoys the big birds and they are a lot easier to pick out features when they alight, which they do on a regular basis in our neighborhood. So, I had to change my count sheet and include the sharpie. By the way, we saw the blue jay the sharpie had first gone after and it was fine. It looked a little worse for wear, but was still feisty.
ricki soucy, Meriden, Ct.
contact information
Is there any way we can get the direct contact email? I need to make a correction and the link tries to get me to use Microsoft passport or Outlook, neither of which I have set up.