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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Hillary K. Grigonis

Wildlife photographers' "obsession" with image quality could be detrimental to birding research, warn citizen scientists

A tree swallow.

As a photographer I'm always striving to level up my images, but researchers are warning bird photographers that one way to "improve" a bird photo may actually end up contaminating valuable citizen scientist databases with misleading data.

In a recent op-ed from the journal Nature, researchers from citizen science databases including iNaturalist and the Macaulay Library told a startling story of a Red-Winged Blackbird found well outside its usual range in Brazil.

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