BirdData: some problems?

Well, Carl is on the east coast of Australia. Baudin’s are endemic to SW WA. There are 20 degrees of longitude between them. The only way a Baudin’s would be on the east coast is if it were an escapee from a collection. Presumably the observation is a misidentified YTBC. Regards, Laurie. On 7 May 2015, at 5:58 pm, Peter Shute <pshute@nuw.org.au> wrote: > According to http://birdata.com.au/help_lists.vm, it’s displaying data for the entire 1 degree x 1 degree grid cell that postcode falls within. How far is that where you live? Does that explain the anomalies? > > Peter Shute > > Sent from my iPad > >> On 7 May 2015, at 4:56 pm, Carl Clifford <carlsclifford@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Out of idle curiosity, I typed my postcode (2263, on NSW Central Coast) into BirData, just to see what it would throw up. I am going to have to start looking a bit harder around my patch, as I have obviously been missing a few cracking birds. Some I have missed are; Red Junglefowl, Cotton Pygmy Goose, Baudin’s Black Cockatoo, and Common Greenfinch, to name a few. Has anyone else on the list looked up their postcode in BirdData to see if there are any “ghost” species lurking? >> >> Carl Clifford >>