eBird Status and Distribution

[Tom Wilberding]

Hello, birders,

Recently was curious about Common Crane, Grus grus, so looked it up at Wikipedia. A distribution map shows it all across Siberia. click here. One showed up in Roswell, NM in December. A birder down there dubbed it, “Dumb Ivan.”

I also looked at an eBird Species Map for this species, click here. No Common Crane in Siberia? More likely no eBirders in Siberia.

Moral of the story: take eBird Species Maps with a grain of salt. They provide a lot of helpful information, but are not the end of the story.

Tom Wilberding
Boulder, CO