Lubbock County, Texas, USA
Since it was included as an example of eBird filters in eBird's Help Center , I am starting with a critique of this eBird region's filter. I happen to have experience submitting data to eBird in the county/region, so am personally aware of some of this filter's inadequacies, and I will begin very high up in the taxonomy with Cackling Goose. CAVEAT: I have no idea if what is presented in the aforementioned Help Center article reflects the current Lubbock County filter, because I have no idea whether or when that filter has been altered since eBird captured a snippet of the filter to use in that explanatory page. However, that ignorance does not affect my arguments below about filters and filter limits. Cackling Goose is an eBird problem child for two reasons, the first being that many eBirders are unaware of the potential for the species to occur nearly anywhere in the United States, and, second, even of those who are aware of the above, many have poor understanding of how t...