Of course, no record committee ever says they are going to go out of their way to ridicule someone's reported sightings.  I also dispute the statement "A birder's reputation by itself, in the absence of acceptable documentation, will never cause a report to be accepted."
 
 Richard
 
 
Richard L. Wood, Ph. D.
Computational Chemist
Cockeysville, MD 21030


----- Original Message ----
From: Phil Davis <>
To: 
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 8:10:39 PM
Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Banked birds

Dr. Wood:

Certainly, no one can speak for ALL records committees; however, maybe this 
link from our MD/DC Records Committee web pages can help you with our 
position on such things ...

The link is entitled ...

         <http://www.mdbirds.org/mddcrc/pdf/rcrejects.pdf>Not-Accepted 
Reports -- Some background on "not-accepted" bird sighting reports.

The actual URL is here ...

         http://www.mdbirds.org/mddcrc/pdf/rcrejects.pdf

Hope this helps.

Phil


At 22:50 02/16/2006, Richard Wood wrote:
>Paul, I thought we were finished with this.
>
>  To clarify to everyone, my problem with the whole thing about "is it a 
> Western Nashville Warbler or a Western Palm Warbler" (and I'm not angry, 
> despite what others think) is that a) nobody I've EVER birded with has 
> EVER looked at a bird with the thinking that it might be "another" 
> species, and b) record committee members are so darn SMUG, despite 
> appearances to the contrary.
>
>  As for b), record committee members act like your friend when you report 
> something "rare", then are real quick to shoot you down and laugh at you 
> while doing it.  That applies to the "cronies" of record committee 
> members as well.  Some even try to offer you "assistance" with your "lack 
> of bird ID skills" (can you say Mark Stackhouse?) (I know that there are 
> birders from other states lurking on this list, that is why I mention 
> Mark), and after insulting you, they try to befriend you.
>

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