The Cluck 'n Quack: Stories of our birds

[Bakbuk]

Hey y’all I just had an idea!!

 

[NC_Quail]

Hey y’all I just had an idea!!

What?!

 

[Bakbuk]

What?!

Have you ever heard of the Macaulay Library?

 

[NC_Quail]

Have you ever heard of the Macaulay Library?

Nope

 

[Bakbuk]

Nope

It’s connected to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the guys that also do eBird and Merlin Bird ID. Check it out, and after you’ve looked around/explored it a bit, come back and let me tell you my idea.
https://www.macaulaylibrary.org/#_ga=2.74164050.1901257189.1646149833-1369908518.1646149672

 

[Bakbuk]

So, what do you think?

 

[NC_Quail]

So, what do you think?

Pretty cool. What is your evil plan?

 

[MGG]

I read this whole thread btw, haha. It was great! I love your birds.

 

[Bakbuk]

I read this whole thread btw, haha. It was great! I love your birds.

Thank you so much!!

BTW I just got some excellent duckie footage that’s too long to make a GIF out of so imma be putting it on Youtube

 

[Bakbuk]

Pretty cool. What is your evil plan?

The reason I brought up Macaulay is this:
I was looking through some chicken breed photos in the handy lil search feature that BYC has. However, I was disappointed because many breeds came up that I didn’t even search for or were just related to the breed I looked up. Here’s an example:

I’m not looking for Light Brahmas or Dark Brahmas or Brahma mixes or birds mis-identified as Brahmas or Birds accidentally tagged as Brahmas, I am looking for BUFF BRAHMAS.

That’s when I got my Idea.
Why not make a database of photos for poultry breeds like The Macaulay Library has for wild birds? I think that would be really fantastic, especially if some things similar to Macaulay could be implemented, like the rating system or reporting mis-identifications.

I wonder if anybody else thinks this would be an awesome idea? Tell me if you do!