I am authoring a paper on Blanford's Laughing Thrush, Montecincla meridionalis (Blanford, 1880). On its ecology and distribution. I wanted to know of Ebird personal checklists are accepted as references in any standard Journals.
Hi S. Kalesh,
Yes, you can use and reference the checklists, observations and any eBird data in a scientific publication for any journal. As usual in online references, you need to put the access date to the web at the end of the reference and the link.
The form of citation can be generic if there are numerous data. Like here in reference 62: Article History of nonnative Monk Parakeets in Mexico
Or specific by authors if there are only a few observations. Like here Article Kerala state bird checklist: additions during 2015 – May 2019
You can see more publications on the use of infromation from eBird and publications using eBird data here https://ebird.org/science/publications
Cheers,
Xurxo Piñeiro
Hi Kalesh,
Observations uploaded to eBird are validated or not by a fairly large team of reviewers. The checklists are available on the eBird web and they are also avilable in the huge database of GBIF as well as data from many other natural observation log applications. Effectively because the information taken from the internet can be modified, in bibliographic references, after the link of a website it is necessary to put the date of access of the web. Other examples of this would be the use of climate information or satellite images.
Greetings,
Xurxo Piñeiro
Those personal lists must also be available on the eBird official website. In Europe all the data go to GBIF, but I don't know for another areas. I think there is some other large database equivalent in other regions, but in any case, all the data of eBird is available on the website. Modification of information anda data is also possible, although slower, in other more traditional publication systems (for example in paper ornithological yearbooks). A specific piece of data or a larger set of dat can be referenced. I put several published examples with data from eBird:
Article New Avian Breeding Records for Iqaluit, Nunavut
Article First record of the crested guan (Penelope purpurascens) in ...
Article Kerala state bird checklist: additions during 2015 – May 2019
I was asking for example we quote a spcific bird record based on a checklist by a person for a publication; the article is published and then later we find that the records has been deleted by the ebirder from that checklist and the particular record us unavailable when searched. I am pointing out such a possibility.
I understand the example, recently happened to me with a website. In my case, I looked for the author and requested the article information directly as personal comunication. It has also happened to me to look for an article that was no longer on the net and I could never locate it. That is why I say that with the case of eBird there is not much difference to how it has been acting until now with sources from the internet.
Xurxo Piñeiro
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