I am the author of I believe the most comprehensive account of an urban bird
population study in Australia, for Canberra (that also lists literature
available at the time from other cities), so that is a basis for writing
something. I am a little lost at the suggestion here of including pelagic
species in a comparison to a Great Backyard Bird Count.
Philip
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From: Birding-Aus On Behalf Of
Laurie Knight
Sent: Sunday, 16 February 2014 3:40 PM
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Subject: Could Australia top the Great Backyard Bird Count?
I've just had a look at the national totals of species observed -
http://ebird.org/ebird/gbbc/places?yr=all&m=
The United States has the most species - 578 on the back of 34,000 lists
India is second with 434 species from just 893 lists Australia is third with
430 species from only 396 lists.
If we can get lists in from around Australia (including the external
territories) and from any pelagic trips run this weekend, it is quite
conceivable that Australia could top the species count. Now that
would be something.
Regards, Laurie.
On 16/02/2014, at 2:21 PM, Laurie Knight wrote:
> So far about 31,000 checklists have been submitted today. (I put in
> two for my neighbourhood). If you look at the map
(http://ebird.org/ebird/gbbc/livesubs?siteLanguage=en
> ), you can see the checklists being submitted in real time -
> obviously a lot coming in from the USA. There is fairly good
> coverage of NZ and southern India, but outback Aus observations are
> few and far between.
>
> The number of species reported is currently 2713, so they are a fair
> bit behind last year's total of 4258 species. I suspect there are
> over 200 Australian species that could easily be added to the list
> by people who have been out this weekend (any pelagics?)
>
> The one question I have is why did the Audubon society choose
> February (the depths of winter in the northern hemisphere) for its
> annual birdcount? Perhaps they were hoping for strong participation
> rates from southern observers?
>
> Regards, Laurie.
>
>
> On 13/02/2014, at 6:19 PM, Laurie Knight wrote:
>
>> The Great Backyard Bird Count is Feb. 14-17. According to the
>> following article, birders in 100 countries will be participating ...
>>
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/11/global-backyard-bird-co
unt/5233847/
>>
>> The deal is that participants do 15+ min bird list for a geographic
>> location and load their sightings on www.birdcount.org
>>
>> Regards, Laurie.
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