Bird sighting website??

[u43hvs]

Members,
All possible problems mentioned above are taken care off on the sites
Waarneming.nl , Waarnemingen.be and Observado.org

checking the observations:

All sites have a staff of validators, taxonomists,mappers and experts.
Not one of these people recieve a fee, they are all vollunteers.
see Waarneming.nl

protect vulnerable species:
On these sites we have sevetal possibillities to hide certain observations.
1. All observations of a species are hidden exx:
The Smooth Snake Gladde Slang - Coronella austriaca | Waarneming.nl
2. All observations of a specie are hidden until a certain date within one area. This is most done with rare breeding birds
3. The observer can enter a 'hidden until' date. The details of the observation will be hidden until this date is in the past . exx this observation of a black stork Black Stork - Ciconia nigra 2009-09-05 | Waarneming.nl

How to protect the site against mis-ids ?
1. people who enter an observation of a rare specie get a message that they have to enter proof of the observation like photo`s, a description etc.
2. people who frequently post mis id`s get a warning and will enventually be ip blocked. The erroneous observations will get a tag 'not approved' by the site validators and are not vissible anymore.
3. All users of the site can contact the validators to report a wrong id.
4. the site contains screens where validators can check the users knowledge of the species.
Contact me in case you have more questions.

[Picidae]

Welcome to the Forum Characeae and U43hvs - I'd certainly recommend all the Sites mentioned both for the quality of the Sites themselves and for the reliability of the identifications - although British reports are still rather thin on the ground I have used the photo Gallery

Waarneming.nl

myself many times for sorting out tricky ID's!

[u43hvs]

although British reports are still rather thin on the ground

That is correct. the site observado.org is mainly filled by dutch and belgium tourists with some exceptions.
We are able to give every (geographical) group their own part of the site (subsite).
The following example is located on the french island Ouessant.
We supplied te local birding group with this subsiten
Association Naturaliste Ouessant
Only observations from this island are shown on this subsite
exx distributionmap of the Sootie Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater - Puffinus griseus | Association Naturaliste Ouessant
statistics of the same species Sooty Shearwater - Puffinus griseus | Association Naturaliste Ouessant

Same example for Ecuador
Aves Ecuador

[characeae]

Ah,
Now I know how the french website was called..for those who are more familiar with french:

Observations.be

[sometimes]

Would twitter be an option? 'contacts' who provide good info would be followed and those who don't deleted from your list.
just a thought.