Bruce MacDonald on Nostr: "Unlike Wikipedia, eBird offers little incentive for deliberate sabotage, but if a ...

"Unlike Wikipedia, eBird offers little incentive for deliberate sabotage, but if a prankster were to claim she saw ten thousand grackles in her backyard, eBird would automatically flag her submission for review by a local volunteer. The system makes it possible to trace the fine contours of the great bird decline and, ornithologists hope, figure out how to reverse it."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/bird-population-decline-united-states-maps/