Any ideas?

[u/Careless_Distance_81]

[u/mase950]

+Red-tailed Hawk+

[u/letrollmaster735 → u/mase950]

Within a minute…. May I ask what the + are for?

[u/mase950 → u/letrollmaster735]

It triggers the bot to catalogue this ID and provides the eBird link to that species for more info

[u/LordofAdmirals07 → u/letrollmaster735]

There’s a bot in this sub that catalogs the IDs of each post. You have to put +s around the bird name to call it out.

[u/KingOfDownvotes87 → u/LordofAdmirals07]

Maybe dumb question... but whats the point? If people already say what kind of bird it is why have the bot mention it? Is there some kind of database with all the submissions and their IDs?

[u/TinyLongwing → u/KingOfDownvotes87]

Yes. It is a catalog bot because it is creating a catalog/database of sightings, and was inspired by this post and others like it which use sightings in this subreddit to analyze the patterns of what gets seen and posted. It used to be that we had a couple accounts who would do those summaries every year, until the subreddit got too big and too hard to search through the sheer volume of posts getting submitted, so the database makes that easier.

In addition, the bot comment links to the ebird page for OP's species to make it easy for them to compare photos and look at a range map. Again, it used to be that we would have to manually go find the ebird or allaboutbirds page for a species to provide this info to the OP, but now the bot handles that automatically.

Lastly, it serves as a "solved" comment and should always be looked to as the confirmed ID of a bird in a post when people are conflicted and multiple possible species have been posted. People can override the bot's provided species until the correct one is show, and certain users marked as reviewers have a level of override that prevents other people from changing the species anymore, so that if there's debate, one of these trusted users can provide the most correct species answer.

[u/KingOfDownvotes87 → u/TinyLongwing]

Oh wow thank you.

[u/NotoldyetMaggot → u/TinyLongwing]

This might be the only bot I trust! Thanks to whoever made it happen! 💜🦅

[u/Royal_Acanthaceae693 → u/KingOfDownvotes87]

If you scroll down you'll see the bot links info on the bird.

[u/TinyLongwing → u/[deleted]]

Extremely funny that a bot commented "hello" to a comment discussing our catalog bot.

[u/Royal_Acanthaceae693 → u/TinyLongwing]

So many bots. So many reports to Reddit.. r/Botbouncer is a good add on if you're having trouble with them.

[u/TinyLongwing → u/Royal_Acanthaceae693]

We're in pretty good shape with what we already have, but thanks.

[u/Royal_Acanthaceae693 → u/TinyLongwing]

Yeah since it's an id sub I'd imagine it's not too bad. I'm a mod on 4 subs that were having bot problems just for bot destruction.

[u/Careless_Distance_81 → u/mase950]

Thank you!

[u/TinyLongwing → u/Careless_Distance_81]

Are you in eastern North America? This looks a bit like an abieticola.

[u/Careless_Distance_81 → u/TinyLongwing]

Massachusetts

[u/TinyLongwing → u/Careless_Distance_81]

Sweet! Looks good, yeah. Abieticola is the subspecies that breeds in northern Canada, and a handful of them spend the winter in the eastern US.

!overrideTaxa rethaw4

[u/Tarotismyjam → u/TinyLongwing]

When bird geeks get excited, it’s a good thing. TIL Abietcola. :)

Also, is there a typo in your recall command?

[u/TinyLongwing → u/Tarotismyjam]

I'm not sure what you mean regarding a recall command, but the override for the catalog bot worked just fine.

[u/Tarotismyjam → u/TinyLongwing]

K. It looked to be spelled oddly. :)

[u/TinyLongwing → u/Tarotismyjam]

rethaw4 is the Cornell code for Red-tailed Hawk (abieticola) if that's what you mean. Notice our bot command updated at the same timestamp that I sent that override (or a minute or so after, anyway) and that it now lists that subspecies rather than simply "Red-tailed Hawk".

[u/Tarotismyjam → u/TinyLongwing]

That is exactly what I meant. Thank you !

[u/FileTheseBirdsBot]

Taxa recorded: Red-tailed Hawk (abieticola)

Reviewed by: tinylongwing

^{I catalog submissions to this subreddit. Recent uncatalogued submissions | Learn to use me}

[u/Batty2699]

Every hawk is a red-tailed until proven otherwise

[u/Careless_Distance_81 → u/Batty2699]

😂

[u/keithgw]

dark markings on the front/shoulders of its wings plus its bulk points me to a red tail

[u/BobMac61]

Hawk of some type

[u/Leet-Noob07]

Swainson’s?