The data quality assessment is a summary of an observation's accuracy. All
observations start as "casual" grade, and achieve
"research" grade when
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the iNat community agrees with the observer's ID, where an "agreeing"
identification is one that matches exactly or is of a child taxon of the
observer's ID. For example, if Scott says it's a mammal and Ken-ichi
says it's Homo sapiens, then Ken-ichi agrees with Scott.
- the observation has a date
- the observation is georeferenced (i.e. has lat/lon coordinates)
- the observation has a photo
Observations will revert to "casual" grade if the above conditions aren't met or
- the community agrees the location doesn't looks accurate (e.g. monkeys in the middle of the ocean, hippos in office buildings, etc.)
- the community agrees the organism isn't wild/naturalized (e.g. captive or cultivated by humans or intelligent space aliens)
Comments & Identifications
Difficult to determine from photo, but Snowy Egrets have yellow feet, and Great Egrets yellow bills. Best way to determine between the two, other than size.
I'd seen a number of Great Egrets on the ground in the area, and I hadn't seen any Snowys, hence my guess it's Greats... but unfortunately, I had neither a good camera nor good binoculars at the time, so this is as good as it got for viewing them. =( I think my only hope for confirmation is to find out something like only one type of them is likely to flock in a tree.
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