I think the frigate bird incident occurred during a bird count, and it was years before net alerts anyway, so the only folk who got a chance to spot the bird were other bird counters.
This morning I find that a "Rare bird alert" with a Google map pointing right to my house and barn was automatically placed on the web. I'm not amused.
I wouldn't be, either. At the very least I'd have expected the site to have required you to opt-in to that sort of thing. Occasionally twitcher swarms make the news here, usually when some poor bird has been blown half a continent off course. Net alerts like that make it even more likely for a swarm to happen, too.
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Date: 2011-04-18 01:17 pm (UTC)I wouldn't be, either. At the very least I'd have expected the site to have required you to opt-in to that sort of thing. Occasionally twitcher swarms make the news here, usually when some poor bird has been blown half a continent off course. Net alerts like that make it even more likely for a swarm to happen, too.