The date I meant is the date of the earliest ‘clean’ record. The date can be revised when an even earlier ‘clean’ record can be established later. Adding the date to the HK Bird List helps to answer the question like when a bird was first seen in HK easily, where rare birds are of particular interest to me.
I understand that it could be hard to track back the first sighting dates of all birds in the list today. As Mike said, we can start to accumulate the piece of information in one list from today with Hawfinch or some time earlier.
I have no comment on the RC decision process.
