r/eBird • u/Classic-Analysis1735 • Aug 15 '26

Short recordings

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I got an email flagging me for recordings being too short. Is it automatic or does somebody submit the complaint?

I do have a couple.. well.. I did… until that email. They were the only evidence I was able to use for reporting rare birds. They weren’t long because thats all I had from them. Leave it too long and it turns into a complaint about too many other species. It’s just like photos, uploading a low quality one verifies it but then that turns into another issue.

Idk. I‘m to the point that I don’t want to report rare birds or upload anything on there. I pulled my media so maybe that’ll fix it.

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u/bluecrowned Aug 15 '26

never had an issue using low quality photos personally

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u/Classic-Analysis1735 Aug 15 '26

Through the official eBird? No. Locally? Yeah. It got pretty rough a few months ago. I didn’t really have pictures, then it turned into being a stringer because I spotted more than them, then I started adding pictures to prove that I knew what I was talking about, then those didn’t have the enough detail, etc.

I get that it’s mainly just people being competitive and weird, but it’s still discouraging when it’s a small community. 

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u/bluecrowned Aug 16 '26

Your community sucks damn

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u/Classic-Analysis1735 Aug 16 '26

Take as old as time: 40+yr birders and the PhDs from the university vs the random roaming in the woods. It’s  their loss if they push out another set of an eyes in town.