The IRBC - Spooftocracy
Decided to start a fresh tracking of the IRBC faileptitude as the previous post was now enormous.
Like those who tracked Trump's golfing or Musk's private jet use...transparency, fact and truth matter.
And the only place you are going to find it in regards to Europe's most ridiculous excuse for a rarity committee is right here. (Well...apart from that single posting on a closed WhatsApp group from Seamus Feeney...cos ya gotta love Irony right? 🤣)
Where did we leave off? July 2024
It's now August 2024.
So let's look at Ireland's excuse for a rarity recording system.
- Do they produce monthly provisional lists as per their own system outline? - No
- Did they sneakily change the wording on their website from "Monthly" to "Regular"? - Yes
- Do they even produce this regularly? - No
- Do they update the Irish list after the publication of each Irish Rare Bird Report? - No
- Are you lucky if that happens once a decade? - Oh dear, No.
- After announcing that they would make announcements on rare birds on Twitter, do they do so? - No
- Do they announce membership changes - No
- Did they ever get a second "Keeper of the provisional list"? - No (and there's a Cringe title btw. 🤣)
- Do they make announcements on the IRBC website anymore? - No
This Uber-Cringe group is now simply a vehicle for desperate, stringy spoofers and mental cases (scroll down to "Stand on your own feet" here if you want some background on that) to play lord of the manor.
The faux prestige of saying "I'm on the rarity committee" to a community that pretends it still does anything.
You can see the future of it now.
We could start a pool on who will get on there in due course and it would be easy to win. You just need to name their desperate wannabe mates. You know, The other lads that string or throw Man-baby tantrums and delete their tweets/evidence.
And so I leave you for now with this.
Cringe. A word synonymous with Irish birding.
Update: September 2024
Yet again, no sign of a provisional list from the Spooftocracy IRBC.
Isn't it time everyone stopped pretending there is a functional rare bird recording body in Ireland?
Bit sad all the losers out there saying "all my list is accepted by the IRBC" when this catastrofuck is on full display, run by spoofers who can't ID Herring Gulls, Grey Herons or Reed Warblers. 🤣
Update: October 2024
Yet again, no outputs from the Spoof Rare Bird Committee. The provisional list system is dead.
I for one am shocked. Shocked I tell you. Well, not that shocked. 🤣
UPDATE December 2024
I do love being right. 😉
It pleases me greatly when one of my predictions comes to pass. Even when it was one this easy to make.
Anyone, even the visually impaired, could have seen that the addition of bird flusher and all round desperate wannabe, Brian "McFlushkey" McCloskey to the IRBC was inevitable. His lickarsery of various members had increased dramatically in recent years and it was a sure thing.
Cian Spoofer Cardiff will be on within 2 years, wait and see 🤣. The propaganda groundwork is already being laid. I begrudge no one a find, but the mark of a liar in birding (I won't use the made up term stringer, liar is far more serious) is not the birds they've accurately found... it's how the act when they KNOW, outright, that they have made a mistake.
The most recent case of me catching Cardiff out involved him claiming to have seen an American Golden Plover on the Mullet.
When I saw his shots on Twitter it was instantly discernable that the bird photographed was not an AGP. I queried. And he deleted the tweet, claiming he had uploaded the wrong photo... TWO photos he had uploaded to Irishbirding, were also deleted. He then claimed to have video. The video never appeared.
In private, his mates know exactly what he is doing when he deletes evidence of his misidentifications (as you see above).
They know.
But like any biased clique, they don't care. Shoulder shrug. "No one likes to be wrong". Being a liar is OK...when there is a culture of liars in birding.
Back in the day, Lickarse O'Keeffe "Waffled that good birders are often wrong and SEEN to be wrong. It was a nonsense lie then. It's a nonsense lie now. In a culture predicated on lies, does it surprise anyone the double standard exists that liars would allow themselves to lie?
With McFlushkey, You can all expect decisions to be made via WhatsApp conference with Mullarney and Brian's paediatrician in due course! 🤣 (I should know. He was asking my ID Opinions for years! 🤣).
We can already see how his tenure will go. Mistakes will be deleted, just like his dodgy mates, because the paradigm now for these clowns is never to simply hold your hand up and say "oops. I was wrong". It's hide the evidence and pretend it never happened.
The real question, which no one will step up to answer...is how did things get this bad, how did it get to this point, where you have people like Des Higgins or Herring Gull King or McFlushkey in any kind of position?
And if there is anyone out there ridiculous enough to suggest this kind of criticism is unacceptable or distasteful...Brian has said similar about Paul Connaughton, his now fellow team member, for example. 🙂
Awkward.
I somewhat pity Cusack here. It's so rare that people acknowledge that getting on the IRBC is not about what you know, but who you know.
And he must now be in the uncomfortable position of having to pretend that his mate McFlushkey is there because he merits it. 🤣
And then, of course, there's jumping on the old band wagon of "Owen's a stringer" for calling him out for the two faced prick he is. He only did this for a few minutes though, slagging off my Avocet during the Summer...before deleting the tweet (luckily a friend screengrabbed it) because pretending he's an innocent wee bell end is very important to him, but also, mostly... he's just a cowardly pussy. 🤣
Best of luck with all that in alls n'anyways.
The addition of Count Dowdall as a new chair position is a mark of how bad thing are. Resurrecting him from his crypt to get the coven in order? 🤣
Again, a great deal of pity there. He will have to be dealing with a ridiculous level of incompetence compared to his tenure in the 80s.
Meanwhile....still no outputs. No provisional list, and it seems Irish Birds is delayed...Shocking.
UPDATE: Actually they missed the deadline for publication in Irish Birds. 🤦
It's not going well, is it. Be honest
now.
As you were.
Update: January 2025
Continuing the omnishambles, the IRBC have now dragged back Joe Hobbs to cobble together an "Interim" Rare Bird report. And it looks like something that was pieced together in an hour. It's dog shit. 😂
But by far the most important aspect, is that many rare bird records produced by the Band Rare Bird News Group, and present in the Band 2022 report are not present.
This has always been the IRBC tactic. They don't have the balls to attack directly. Instead it has always been a tactic of exclusion.
They started with a smear campaign and excluding all my rare birds, rejected without assessment.
When I fought back they back tracked, saying that from 2010 I would be treated the same as any other birder.
When I pointed out that they were asking for descriptions of my Appendix 1 rarities from 2005-2009 but still rejecting dozens upon dozens of my Appendix 2 rarities I was told to collate these myself (no other birder has had to do that and these are supposed to be in their provisional lists).
Since that time, whenever I have found birds on visits home to Ireland they are either attributed to people other than myself, or excluded entirely.
And this is the tactic which allows them to lie, and allows others to pretend that this is some one sided argument.
This organization, it's amorphous mass of flag shagging followers, these are the ones who constantly continue this behavior. I'm the one who gets slammed for tackling it in classic shoot the messenger fashion.
So please, take the time, download the IRSBG 2022 report, compare it to the IRBC nonsense, and ask yourself who was more accurate, fair, and comprehensive.
And then ask yourself...how did one man produce a report over 300 pages long, covering ALL rarities for 2022, and publish it within weeks of the New Year 2023, whilst 12 people, over the course of years, with a slashed to nothing rarity list, can't produce provisional lists, can't meet a deadline for publication in Irish Birds, and all you get is this politicized, biased crap wilfully excluding rarities.
How does that happen?
Update: 30.01.2025
What is Rare - The Failed Rare Bird Recording System of Ireland
Do the IRBC know what they are doing? Even internally? It would appear not.
Apart from their latest recruit claiming the finding of Algeria's first Eastern Sub-alpine Warbler (it's a common species there) 😂, the Incompetent Rare Birds Committee has finally produced a provisional list for 2023. Yes...two years without a provisional list folks.
Do the IRBC know what they are doing? Even internally? It would appear not.
2 years to produce an excel file...badly
Many years back, when I was contacted by then secretary Kieran Fahy about their back track on the IRBC smear campaign, they requested I submit several Appendix 1 records I had found and that I would be treated the same as any other Irish birder.
When I pointed out that it was a bit dodge to be asking for my Appendix 1 records, whilst simultaneously shitting all over my multitude of Appendix 2 finds, he, astoundingly, asked that I collate them all myself and submit these.
No other Irish birder has ever had to collate their own A2 records. They are supposed to be retained in their provisional lists. Their new policy of treating me like any other birder lasted all of two seconds. 😂
So you will have to understand, I don't want to do any of their work for them.
That said, it's time to take a look at how they are actually operating.
Every time they produce a report, they have the same text at the start. The backbone of the system is the provisional list blah blah blah, here's the link to the provisional list page, which further links to the appendix 1 and appendix 2 lists.
Appendix 1 requires major overhaul. Plenty of species on their description list which are due a downgrade.
Appendix 2, apart from being slashed to barely anything since 2005 (seemingly for sheer laziness/a failed attempt to cut workload for the provisional lists...which again aren't produced), this appendix no longer matches what appears in reports.
So are they being lazy, incompetent or deliberately dishonest? Could be all 3 at once.
I won't do the work for them/you of highlighting all the species listed which are no longer being recorded, but I will highlight one funny example which really shows that these clowns don't even communicate with each other or know what they're doing.
Surf Scoter
Surf Scoter suddenly disappeared from reports in 2021, without any explanation or announcement. And an explanation would definitely be required, as there is now a blatant consistency issue in regards to what is retained and reported and what is not.
Seemingly, whoever is now responsible for producing the Provisional list for 2023...did not get that memo... because Surf Scoter is back on the menu. 😂
I won't do the work for them/you of highlighting all the species listed which are no longer being recorded, but I will highlight one funny example which really shows that these clowns don't even communicate with each other or know what they're doing.
Surf Scoter
Surf Scoter suddenly disappeared from reports in 2021, without any explanation or announcement. And an explanation would definitely be required, as there is now a blatant consistency issue in regards to what is retained and reported and what is not.
Seemingly, whoever is now responsible for producing the Provisional list for 2023...did not get that memo... because Surf Scoter is back on the menu. 😂
They really don't have a clue what they're doing. Can anyone argue otherwise now?
Where are all those brave lads who lauded this system back in 2006? Who demanded integrity and accuracy and called it enlightened and moving with the times? 😂
So take the time. Examine what is being produced, understand nothing lines up with their own targets, guidelines and lists. Ask the hard questions, if you can ever grow a pair. And think about whether the task of recording rare birds in Ireland is actually being effectively served by successive panels of spoofers?
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