Summer field reports data

[Wendy VanDeWalle]

Hi all! 

Hope you had a good summer of birding! Our summer field report covers June and July, and on the 15th of August we will be downloading the eBird and IOU data. So this is your friendly notice to please finish up any reporting of your rare or unusual birds. If you don’t have a picture, please put a detailed description of what the bird looked like and how it was acting in the comments section. Simply putting “Merlin ID” will not suffice as Merlin can often be wrong. Also, if you observed any breeding, nesting or fledglings, please mark the appropriate breeding code in eBird and then go to the website and enter the ages of the birds in the age box. If you need any help with reporting, please let me know. I may have missed a few of the Facebook reports of rare birds this season, so if you know of any, please encourage them to submit their sightings.

Happy birding! 

Wendy VanDeWalle 

IOU Summer field reports editor 

[Jill Armentrout]

Can anyone help me, I am trying to submit a report of the Mississippi Kite family from July & I am getting this error. It says please fix the item below. I have 3 kites, added details, added sex & age & breeding. It shows R after the species

[John T]

Hey, that just means it's marked as a rare bird for the area per current filters. I think once you've said you're sure it should go through

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Can anyone help me, I am trying to submit a report of the Mississippi Kite family from July & I am getting this error. It says please fix the item below. I have 3 kites, added details, added sex & age & breeding. It shows R after the species

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[Jill Armentrout]

It won’t accept. I have comments, details, ages & sex.

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[John T]

Hmm, only thing I can think of is "Is there a box that says you've gone over and verified your values once you've submitted"?