Who said anything about making numbers up? Its accurate accounts that are being missed and bird numbers being inaccurately defined as reducing that I was talking about.
We have Mandarin ducks on our pond fairly regularly, should I count them in any survey? Will that give a more accurate result, even if I don't see them on the actual day of the survey? Citizen science will only work if people record what they see, at the time they see it.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
It's not a day but a weekend. So do we discount those who did it on Saturday instead of Sunday or those who broke their time up into slots to fit in their day? So yes if at the time you watched include them, but don't pigeon hole people into such tight rules as it will discourage them from taking part, as after all without participants no records would be made.
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Citizen science will only work if people record what they see, at the time they see it.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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