The purpose with this new process is to share individual expertise, research, common knowledge and data.

Please understand, that you should not download Copyrighted data for sharing over the internet in this forum or Birder's Diary. While you may reference various authorities and readily accessible Copyrighted information, the data should be your own compilation.

Each submission to this forum will be reviewed and Copyrighted data sets will be removed.

On the other hand, if you find a valuable source for checklist data that is Copyrighted, please feel free to post here with contact informatoin, web site, etc. If I deem the data worthwhile, I might be able to contact the Copyright owner and work out an agreement for use of that data.

If you have any questions concerning this issue, please feel free to contact me via e-Mail.

Thank You!