Open jhurley13 opened 3 years ago
Good illustration of SPUH question: Red-winged Blackbird 50 Tricolored Blackbird 10 Brewer's Blackbird 50 blackbird sp. 300 L2597366-Sergey Pavlov-15:16-Coyote Valley-S77941274
From Barry 01-29-21:
CAPA Calculated total: 174 Reported total: 171 Reasons for difference: Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) and Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon) together count as one species (subtract 1) Yellow-rumped Warbler, (Audubon’s) and (Myrtle) together count as a single species (subtract 2) parakeet sp. (aka spittacara sp.) would count as a species, but are not countable via ABA rules (no change) Final number: 171
CASJ Calculated total: 174 Reported total: 173 Reasons for difference: Yellow-rumped Warbler, (Audubon’s) and (Myrtle) together count as a single species (subtract 2) (Brown Pelican wasn’t actually on the list) Final number: 172
CAMH No discrepancies
CACR Calculated total: 145 Reported total: 144 Yellow-rumped Warbler, (Audubon’s) and (Myrtle) together count as a single species (subtract 2) Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) is countable (add 1) Final number: 144
Other notes: (these didn’t happen this time) Greater/Lesser Scaup — if both Greater Scaup and Lesser Scaup were zeroes, we would add 1 for this item Western/Clark's Grebe — if both Western Grebe and Clark’s Grebe were zeroes, we would add 1 for this item Short-billed/Long-billed Dowitcher — if both Short-billed Dowitcher and Long-billed Dowitcher were zeroes, we would add 1 for this item
[From Barry, 01-30-21] Gentle reader,
Brace yourself for a dive into typographic esoterica :-). This is my attempt to come up with a solution for the many different subspecies situations that arise when showing tabular data for the CBC. I’ve come up with options that are visually appealing (to my eye) and make sense (to me at least).
Here are the possible situations that I’ve observed, along with my typographic representation:
Situation A: Only one subspecies was observed and people want to know which subspecies it is: Iceland Gull (Thayer’s) — no indentation, not italic, subspecies name in parentheses and italics
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Situation B: There’s a main subspecies that is observed in the area and we’re sure what we saw is from that subspecies, but other subspecies were observed and people want to know the name of our main subspecies: Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon) — no indentation, not italic, subspecies name in parentheses and italics Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) — indented, italic, subspecies name in parentheses and italics
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Situation C: There’s a main likely subspecies observed, but there’s enough of a chance that it could be something else that we would call it out if it were something else, but no other subspecies were positively identified: Northern Flicker — no indentation, not italic
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Situation D: There are multiple local subspecies, some of which we identified, some not: Yellow-rumped Warbler — no indentation, not italic Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon’s) — indented, italic, subspecies name in parentheses and italics Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) — indented, italic, subspecies name in parentheses and italics
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Situation E: There are subspecies, but either it’s unlikely to be found in the area or it’s hard enough to differentiate them that we didn’t do so: Canada Goose — no indentation, not italic Great Blue Heron — no indentation, not italic White-crowned Sparrow — no indentation, not italic etc.
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Other possibilities may arise in other years, but we can deal with them as they come up.
As part of prepare_for_compiler, highlight CountSpecial count fields if all counts in Group are zero. For example, count "peep sp." iff all other on list in "Sandpipers and Allies" are zero Or "gull sp." iff "Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers" all zero This isn't quite right though, since "peep sp." would require all Shorebirds to be 0 See e.g. "Western/Clark's Grebe" and "Western/Clark's Grebe"